Originally Posted by
411A
And therein goes the proficiency.
But the safety has improved. You can argue that reduced profiency reduces safety, but the risks of flying such a procedure are high. Well, high by today's standards. Better to manage the risk earlier in my opinion.
My previous aircraft was a wide body classic jet. Our IR renewals in the sim had us flying an NDB approach using the RMI. For real, I wouldn't even consider doing it without the triple mix IRS with GPS update info on the HSI. As it was, I never had to. Our chief pilot mentioned that he didn't really want anyone flying them for real either!
Now on the electric wonder jet, it really is no fuss. And with a EGPWS overlay on the ND there is no more risk than flying an ILS.