AA pilots I flew with were not children of magenta. We could all fly raw data NDB and VOR approaches with no magenta. One dark night I was approaching an airport in East part of Dominican Republic and was told one minute out that the VOR was out and they were doing the NDB approach so in the clouds we reconfigured and broke out at 800 ft to land with a PAPI totally down to a 1.5 degree glide slope so we knew we were low so leveled to make it right. Pilots can not let stuff like this hurt them. Just be smart and plan ahead. We asked all these questions prior to departure but got nothing from company.