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Old 3rd Nov 2011, 12:01
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Originally Posted by Fuji Abound
Hopefully by the time you get back to the beacon ATC will ask your intentions! Dont forget many of the airports with these approaches in the UK have no radar so obvioulsy you are not going to get vectors.
This seems to be a retrograde step, compared with a conventional ILS which has a published procedure for returning to the approach from the beacon. I wonder why they chose to design GPS approaches in this half-baked way, which can't make life any easier for ATC, or pilots. A standard procedure could be programmed into the GPS, whereas this requires it to be reprogrammed on the fly, depending on the instructions from ATC.
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