On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 09:15:04 +0000 (UTC), "David Cartwright"
wrote:

"BTIZ" wrote in message
news:LL9Xd.70090$Tt.44632@fed1read05...
Well.. if the localizer goes kaput... then it is the VOR backup.. but if
it's my receiver that has gone kaput.. then its over to the military base
for a radar directed approach...

Assuming you mean SAR (talkdown) approaches, it's not just the military
airfields that can do those over here. I did one during my IMC rating
training at Norwich airport. It was immense fun, actually, and the
controller told me later that he enjoys doing them for training flights as
it's excellent practice for the few real ones he has to do.


On Several occasions I've had MBS approach ask me if I'd be willing to
do a PAR for a new, or traineee controller.
They are harder to do when you can see outside as you tend to fly the
thing instead of doing what the controller is telling you.:-))

Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com



D.