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Old 18th Mar 2012, 00:48
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Brian Abraham
 
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It can be done and was done in the 1960's on the Eastern Seaboard of NSW, using a combination of GCA /PAR, plenty of practice, good controllers, keen pilots.
Don't know how wide spread the practice was among the instructors, but some in the USN used to, during instrument training, have you do a GCA to touchdown while under the hood to demonstrate it could be done in extremis situations. Confidence building.
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