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There are 4 airports within 25 miles of here with NDB approaches. At GDW
it's all they have...when it's working.

--
Roger (K8RI EN73)
WWW.RogerHalstead.com
N833R, World's Oldest Debonair? S#CD-2

"Roy Smith, CFI" <roy@panix.com> wrote in message
news:roy-253C78.21372315032002@reader2.panix.com...
> "JerryK" <jerryk.nospam@nospam.com> wrote:
> > Good thinking on those schools part. I spent way too much time dealing
with
> > the NDB when getting my rating.
>
> I agree 100%. I spent countless hours practicing NDB approaches and holds
> during my instrument training. Maybe it's just the places I fly to, but
> I've never, ever, flown an NDB approach except in training.
>
> I find it just as frustrating on the other side. Why should I have to
> waste my students' (and my own) time working on NDB procedures they'll
> never use in real life? Even if you ignore the money aspect of it (which
> is substantial), every hour wasted practicing NDB procedures is an hour
you
> could have spent practicing something that might actually save your life
> someday, like how to fly a partial panel ILS or perform a manual gear
> extension on instruments.
>
> I recently got instrument current by doing an IPC in a sim. The
instructor
> insisted we fly an NDB approach. OK, I struggled through and found the
> (simulated) airport but I can't honestly say it was of any value other
than
> to be a step I had to take to collect a needed logbook signature.
>
> And, before you call me a techno-bigot, I should point out that I own a
> sextant and know how to use it :-)
> --
> Roy Smith, CFI-ASE-IA

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