(C Kingsbury) wrote
This is no more ded reckoning than you do on *every* published holding
pattern.

True enough, but most of the time your only purpose in the hold is to
stay in one place for a while. Here, you're about to shoot an NDB
approach. The outbound segment, if flown with positive course
guidance, gives you a chance to establish the crosswind component.
Fly it by DR, and you miss the chance.

Except for pedantry's sake I do not see any benefit to being dead-on
the 207 magnetic bearing on the outbound segment.

Well, if you're confident enough of your skills to not want the extra
chance to establish the crosswind component, and confident enough that
wou will roll out established inbound - go for it.

If it were unsafe
the procedure would not be allowed.

You truly need to disabuse yourself of that notion before it kills
you. Check out the VOR-B for LVJ sometime - a perfect example of how
you can fly an approach with equipment well within allowable
tolerances, to well within PTS standards, and still die.

Michael