Even during my PAR course at Shawbury, we didn't get much written course material, but then I had a civil licence and was just there to undertake an 'approved course' in order to add it to my Approach Radar rating, rather than the full Joint ATC course where PAR is an integral part.
What do you need, phraseology?, technique? F'rinstance I'm told there's even differences between RAF and RN procedures (eg RAF give a minimum 2 deg heading change whereas RN give minimum 1 deg).
Some autopilot's/FMS' don't like such small heading changes; I often found that giving a 2 deg change, nothing happened, so I'd give another 2 deg, and still nothing happened, but on giving a further 2 deg, suddenly the autopilot, having been given 5 deg or more, would react with all 6 deg and thus would over correct!
Discussing this with a bizjet pilot, he said he always recommended a PAR be flown manually with the yaw damper de-selected.
Last edited by chevvron; 11th August 2012 at 23:44.