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Old 2nd Dec 2012, 22:58
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C441
 
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The R16 ILS into YMML was down for maintenance a couple of times last week and due to the crappy weather quite a few ndb approaches were done.
Yep, the last NDB approach I flew in anger was on 16 in a 767 in similar conditions in the mid-90's.

A recent A-380 sim involved an NDB approach, although compared to the mid-90's version the only the only thing remotely similar was that the NDB indication had to be observed to confirm the accurate tracking of the GPS based nav system....hardly NDB tracking.
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