There are no problems with ATCOs - they look a lot safer than NDB approaches!
Here's the story...
The CAA designed these approaches, and trialled them. They were a success.
The CAA said "You can implement them, you need to prove they're safe".
We said "How? You designed them"
CAA said "That's your problem".
So, you try and write a safety case, the CAA won't give you any guidance on what they want. You submit it, and they have a massive backlog of safety cases so it takes them months to read it.
An age later the CAA said "Sorry, thats no good".
We said "OK, Why? What do you want?"
CAA said "We're not going to tell you that, its up to you to figure out what we want".
So, we're basically screwed. Any suggestions here?
MikeJ look at the airports which do and don't have RNAV approaches available. The NATS airports (LL and KK) have them, the other independant airports don't. Does that answer your question?