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Old 3rd Apr 2008, 10:13
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There is still, some 5 months since its introduction, widespread local and individual interpretation of this procedure and there should not be; it is quite specific and, only in some circumstances, is there a need for a report of localiser established to be made. Otherwise, it is a 'silent' procedure that, given the increasing mass of RT, is a welcome development. What is required is a concerted drive from ATC Standards to make sure that the procedure is unversally applied and not left to the whims of individual controllers. I can assure you that one can go into the same airport twice in one day and fly the new(ish) procedure in 'silent' mode and on the next visit go through the same old 'report localiser established'.......'descend on the ILS' etc.

Was not the point of the new procedure's introduction to make a tentative (grudging) 'British' compromise between the good, solid, impeccably reasoned UK ILS procedure (so it must be right) and the fast and loose procedures used quite successfully for decades by those irresponsible continental types?
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