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Old 16th Feb 2010, 21:15
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IO540
 
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Nearly all big airports around Europe have ILS and you will get vectors to the localiser, as a standard thing.

However, one finds procedural approaches in some suprising places. I flew into Hania LGSA (Crete) which is full of F16s flying circuits nonstop, radars all over the place, but apparently the civilian controller doesn't have a radar screen (or is not allowed to see it). So you get a procedural VOR approach, and you are told to "report ready to commence the approach" which, never having heard it before, I took as meaning "report beacon outbound" or some such

Procedural approaches are easy enough to fly - just do wot da plate sez.

Anyway, missed approaches are procedural even when you were vectored to the localiser. Unless you get vectors after going missed... which is a bonus but you can't rely on it, and the missed approach procedure is likely to take you into a hold so you need to be able to hack that too.
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