they all convinced themselves that as their ac had no ADF
I have my IMC rating, and have kept it validated, and will do again when it expires near the end of this year. My bug bear is the obsession with the ADF's. In my first revalidation I falied because the ADF in my plane is poor (engineers think it picks up interference from all of the other NAV equiptment). In a practise attempt in another aircraft I was told my NDB approach wasnt good enough, but the instructor struggled to do better and told me in the real world a commercial flight solely relying on an ADF approach would be declared an emergency. I dont know if that was in jest
. I accepted my ADF skills could have been better so I bought Rant XL so I could practise on something reliable and less costly than a real plane. For the last 4 years in my real IMC flying I havent used the ADF once
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I quite like the ADF as an instrument, but I wouldnt want to stake my life on it, hence in practise my IMC based nav comprises primarily of VOR's and use of a Garmin and a NATS Aware as a backup. I prefer to also use these if I do a hold (rare) or an approach. The IMC test should (IMHO)focus more on safe flight in clouds and en route navigation using other NAV sources, and not be obsessive with ADF's.