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Old 28th Jul 2010, 16:27
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Airfields with radar usually radar vector, and are not so keen on pilots flying the procedure (but are ok with it if not busy).

Airfields without radar are procedural.

Then you get odd ones which insist on radar unless the radar unit is not functional e.g. like Biggin (Thames Radar) and Oxford (Brize Radar). I have been refused procedural approaches at these (not recently though) because I didn't read the note on the plate saying the procedural option is available only if radar is not I imagine these places pay a lot of £££ as an annual flat rate fee to the radar unit's company and want to get their money's worth.

Around Europe, most places are radar vectored especially if they have an ILS.
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