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Old 13th Mar 2013, 00:26
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Big Pistons Forever
 
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Canada, like Australia, had only NDB approaches at most airports until very recently.

Thankfully Transport Canada (CAA equivalent) has finally started getting serious about commissioning GPS approaches at all instrument airports.

I started carrying a handheld GPS in the early 1990's and now all the aircraft I fly have proper IFR GPS units fitted. As near as I can figure the last time I flew a for real IMC NDB approach without some sort of GPS track guidance, even if it was only the handheld, was 1994

Now of course if I was using a handheld the primary nav instrument was the ADF but amazingly after 1994 the aircraft track was always very closely aligned with the centerline of the runway when I broke out on the "NDB" approach

Before that the runway was anywhere from 10 to 2 O'Clock when I got visual. I guess I must have suddenly got a lot better at NDB approaches in 1994
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