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Old 15th Oct 2010, 11:55
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....how you would use such gear when approaching, say, a FAF in the sandpit at night or in bad vis.
....VERY SLOWLY, OR NOT ALL!!!

Bearing in mind that even the VOR/ILS was not even cleared for use, I certainly would NOT have trusted CPLS/PRC112! (+/- 4 deg is an awful lot of room for error when near culmulo-granite and cloud - that's before you consider any possible EM interference - testing for which had NOT been done in '94.)

In short, the Hc2 was, at that time, a "Day, VMC, Op Necessity only" aircraft.
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