Originally Posted by
Big Pistons Forever
Rather than make a whole new plate an easy way is to augment training is to just pick any NDB approach out the real book of plates plates and add 2000 ft to every altitude with a grease pencil on a plastic cover. Find a convienent AM radio station and go for it. I also tried to enter the approach off a published transition rather than just go straight to the station to make the exercise more realistic. Also I get the student to do a ground briefing where the appraoch used is the end of a complete simulated flight.
Let me be
perfectly clear. Under
NO circumstances am I advocating actually flying a made up approach in actual IMC or at night. The idea of flying an approach procedure using a commercial broadcast station is simply for convienence during a day VFR instrument training flight with due care taken to keep an adequate lookout. It frankly boggles my mind that anyone would think they need to caution instructors not to do this under real IMC conditions