FS - all agreed and my way too. The question to 'opher' was to try and gain insight into what is obviously a complete mis-understanding by me of the eastern bloc military way of flying approaches - which may well be the root cause of the death of so many unfortunate people. It begins to sound as if 'Opher' and his colleagues may have another way of doing it to what we see as the 'norm'..
Regarding your last para, I have already said on this thread what I think happened.