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Old 6th Apr 2011, 19:01
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theficklefinger
 
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You would think so, but when I had a Citation copilot shoot an approach into Tacoma Narrows, and he just followed the needles that didn't move....I asked him at about 1000 feet, what ILS frequency he was on....

He looked at his chart, then the panel, shook his head.

He never put in the frequency..

Later that night he told me he got his instrument rating in a plane with Garmin Moving maps...he just watched where the airplanes were on the moving map, and flew it over to the hold, flew it over to the IAP..

It's beyond sad right now.

If everyone was required to successfully shoot partial panel approaches at the airlines, the whole industry would shut down.
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