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Old 21st May 2003, 21:02
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Few Cloudy

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ILS 28, and ILS 34

A while back I posted a newspaper report about a pending ILS installation RW 28. What happened to that we will have to ask
N38OUA or ZRH. This week flight testing was, however being done on the RW 34 ILS, so maybe things are moving.

The problem with VOR RW 28 is that in still wind or tailwind conditions it takes serious planning and execution to get the ROD working. In headwind conditions, which used always to be the case on this approach, before the politicians got in there, this was not a problem. This probably had quite a lot to do with the Crossair HS146 accident. There was a lot more to it than that, of course but it was probably a big contributing factor.
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