Dan wrote:
On Mar 5, 4:42 pm, Gig 601XL Builder
wrote:
xyzzy wrote:

A better analogy would be requiring all new computer programmers to
learn assembler, which as far as I know they still do. You still have
to learn the basics before you can learn the modern stuff.
A pilot coming on now could very easily fly all his life and never see a
working ADF in an aircraft.


Is that really so bad?

I mean..for old times sake and all...

Of 5 airplanes flown in the past 3 months only one had an ADF. And I
don't know anyone who has used it because there's only one ADF
approach within 120 miles (KLBE).

A local airport has ADF REQUIRED on the LOC 5, but GPS provides that
fix.

Dan

Not that it is bad other than time spent learning how to do approaches
with a piece of equipment you not only might never use but probably
won't ever even see is a waste of time and money.

When I was getting my private in the late 70's there wasn't an NDB
approach anywhere near us. The CFI would regularly placard the ADF that
was in one of their planes IN-OP when ever they sent a pilot for a check
ride.