Like thing I fly from a mil airfield (I wonder if it's the same one
) and would take a PAR over anything else if the chips were down. Single pilot it greatly reduces the workload.
Yes, I've flown NDB approaches in genuine IMC as well as for the biennial IMCR renewal. I wouldn't choose to, but those complaining about the inaccuracy should note that the approach is designed to cope with this. And I completely agree that in actual IMC I would always fly it on a handheld GPS or even a mobile phone in preference to the ADF needle, which I would regard as the emergency backup. On my Aera 500 you can enable OBS mode and fly it basically as if it were a VOR approach, or just set the OBS to the final approach track and fly the ADF outbound and the GPS inbound if you don't fancy fiddling with it during the base turn.