With all due respect, Kai Tak was a 'dogleg' rather than a curve, and you had to be visual before the turn ie before you hit the hillside.
A curved MLS approach would be ideal at Farnborough as all traffic would use the same final approach track (FAT) and it could be designed to keep the FAT outside the Heathrow CTR.
We originally decided this would be the way to go at Farnborough rather than install ILS then replace it after a few years, but then along came GPS and the ILS/MLS replacement programme was forgotten (although we did evaluate TLS which could have given us a dogleg approach).
Last edited by chevvron; 20th Jan 2011 at 10:18.