FED (#10236),
...I remember when a Belfast arrived the captain was waxing lyrical about the ACR7 approach he had been given to Odiham...
I don't think "lyrical" was, perhaps, the right word, given that his experience had been:
..."When I looked up all I could see were green fields." ...
All too reminiscent of the (apocryphical) story of the GCA "talkdown" student at Shawbury, who is supposed to have ended his
spiel with the despairing: "
Look around for the runway and crash visually - Talkdown Out !"
On return from RAF(G), where I revelled in the luxury of a CPN4, I was brought down to earth with a bang in '62 at Linton-on-Ouse, where they had an ACR7. Three years ago I wrote reams about this long obsolete beast here in my page 263 , #5255 (if anyone's interested). It was good gear, and good work could be done with it (Teesside Airport had the built-in version in their Tower at the time).
Danny.