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Old 8th Feb 2014, 16:25
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Anyone who can accurately fly an NDB hold offsetting for wind and then leave that hold outbound on an NDB approach again offsetting and having a good mental picture of the winds and approach and then complete an NDB approach hitting the right descent points at the right time to minima can fly anything.
i would add doing all that in IMC and turbulence! its the best training exercise you can do.
This was the exact scenario I had, about halfway through my IMC training. We came back from shooting a few ILSs elsewhere. Turbulent IMC all the way. On approaching our home base we were descending to the MSA, still in IMC. Did the full NDB procedure, descended to minima, still in clouds. Was about to go around when the instructor looked down and saw the runway. So we descended visually, flew a tight circuit and landed normally.

One of the best flights I ever did. I really learned something about flying from that.
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