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Forum: Private Flying

25th Nov 2020, 11:17

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UK NDB only timed approaches

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Posted By Genghis the Engineer

Reminds me of taking my instructor initial skill...

Reminds me of taking my instructor initial skill test out of a somewhat unfamiliar airfield. Five minutes after take-off I realised that I had lost positional awareness. So I turned to my examiner,...

Forum: Private Flying

19th Nov 2020, 18:17

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UK NDB only timed approaches

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Posted By Genghis the Engineer

For en-route navigation a VOR/DME network makes...

For en-route navigation a VOR/DME network makes good sense (although most aeroplanes who need that capability probably carry perfectly adequate INS systems). But, for approaches, you're in a bit of...

Forum: Private Flying

19th Nov 2020, 11:19

Replies: 72

UK NDB only timed approaches

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Posted By Genghis the Engineer

Does make you all rather reliant upon a single...

Does make you all rather reliant upon a single technology, although if it's demonstrably in different frequency ranges and using different satellites - perhaps.

As INS isn't accurate enough (by a...

Forum: Private Flying

19th Nov 2020, 09:21

Replies: 72

UK NDB only timed approaches

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Posted By Genghis the Engineer

Plenty of companies could make new, cheap NDBs,...

Plenty of companies could make new, cheap NDBs, and it wouldn't be hard to make a more accurate better, modern ADF incorporated into other systems.

I'm entirely with jimtx on this. They are cheap...

Forum: Private Flying

18th Nov 2020, 11:03

Replies: 72

UK NDB only timed approaches

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Posted By Genghis the Engineer

If I was creating my own ad-hoc IAP I absolutely...

If I was creating my own ad-hoc IAP I absolutely would, but it troubles me that some people doing so, haven't. Missed approach procedure seems to be most often missing, followed by Decision Altitude....

Forum: Private Flying

17th Nov 2020, 13:38

Replies: 72

UK NDB only timed approaches

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Posted By Genghis the Engineer

Discorde - does seem to be missing IAF, DA, and...

Discorde - does seem to be missing IAF, DA, and missed approach procedure. I'm not inherently against ad-hoc IAPs, but all of the formality that's there in the official ones is there for good...

Forum: Private Flying

17th Nov 2020, 11:34

Replies: 72

UK NDB only timed approaches

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Posted By Genghis the Engineer

Ah, I've just spotted it in the small print at...

Ah, I've just spotted it in the small print at the bottom of the plate, I stand corrected.

G

Forum: Private Flying

17th Nov 2020, 10:40

Replies: 72

UK NDB only timed approaches

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Posted By Genghis the Engineer

When I did my IMCR at EGTC I was regularly flying...

When I did my IMCR at EGTC I was regularly flying a timed NDB approach on the CIT, that approach is now only an NDB/DME approach, which arguably isn't very helpful as whilst easier to fly, it does...

Forum: Private Flying

16th Nov 2020, 21:39

Replies: 72

UK NDB only timed approaches

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Posted By Genghis the Engineer

You called a civilian instructor Sir ???? I...

You called a civilian instructor Sir ????

I think that NDB approaches have value, maybe for SA, although I'm not altogether convinced by your argument that they give better SA than other systems -...

Forum: Private Flying

16th Nov 2020, 16:57

Replies: 72

UK NDB only timed approaches

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Posted By Genghis the Engineer

We used to have one at Cranfield on 21 and the...

We used to have one at Cranfield on 21 and the CIT. Checking, it vanished at some point I wasn't paying attention, but the footprint is I think the same if you can find an old plate.

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