Guppy
I too had to land mid Saudi in a ferry jet I was bringing back. 2000 metres dust! on landing the wind increased dramatically the palm trees bent double and visibility dropped to 100 metres in a sand storm.
A figure draped in white appeared through the gloom with his faced wrapped up against the cutting sand. Getting out of the Citation was a painful sandblasting experience. PM me an E mail address and I will send you a picture
Sir Niall Dementia
Cant open your link but presume its some tragic event of a pilot using a home made approach?
I did say arrival or departure which doesnt mean a landing procedure built using GPS.
It could be points layed out to take you around some hills (turbulence) and to line you up facing the right direction for a particular runway nothing wrong with that as long as in IMC you stay above the MSA.
I have used home made GPS procedures for landing although always following a published NDB/DME procedure etc. The key is to never trust one aid alone.
A good friend took up the hold 10 miles short of where he should have been on an NDB procedure with the needle following a thunderstorm
Pace