Originally Posted by
DOUBLE BOGEY
Despite the posters on this site trying to give the impression that this kind of approach is, and should be routine, the reality is that in NS ops, a Localiser only approach to minimums is probably a once or twice in a career event for NS crews.
For real, possibly, although I think I have done a fair few. But surely its something that is done every 6 months in training, mostly in the aircraft and recently of course, in the Sim? Well a non-precision approach anyway, whether its a VOR, NDB, or LOC. It was always a favourite trick in the sim to lead the crew into expecting an ILS but then have the GS fail just before (or even during, if you were mean) the approach thus making it a Loc approach.