Think the UK and maybe the US are the only people left in the world doing them....
Actually not, PAR/PRA is still used at all Swedish airforce wings. Even the Nordic Battlegroup will bring equipment to be able to make ground controlled precision approaches wherever it may be necessary. I've never actually had a rating for PAR/PRA myself but it was great fun when the PAR/PRA-controller was really busy so you had to line them up really good on the llz and even a bit down the glide (still got a current SRE/SRA rating
) before you could hand them over.
1. On a PAR once we get visual do you like to be told so? Some guys do, and the talkdown continues all the way to the deck regardless. Some times when we say we are visual the talkdown stops.
Monkey Madness answer applies to Sweden as well.