It is good procedure to call out the height/distance checks. You never know when you'll need it for real, and you should not let your skill set get rusty.
We will sometimes fly VOR or NDB procedures even when the ILS is working for training purposes, for this reason, but not if there is a high traffic situation.
Even somewhere like LOWI, which has a 'glidepath' with a localiser, the GP can be badly affected by snow and temperature variations, so then it's back to step-down call outs anyway.
Last edited by Dash8driver1312; 27th May 2013 at 08:37.