When was the last time you used your ADF?

On Wed, 07 Jun 2006 13:52:49 GMT, "Steven P. McNicoll"
wrote:


"Gary Drescher" wrote in message
...

I once made an NDB approach in IMC to a field whose ILS approach was
pointing downwind at the time. Usually, though, my use of the ADF is for
an ILS's LOM.


What field?

At one time, maybe they still do, TVC (Traverse City) had an NDB
approach off what was also the LOM on the ILS. Of course it was
pointed in the same direction as the ILS, but you could do a circle to
land off it. OTOH they also had a VOR that would have been a lot
easier and made more sense, at least to me.

Actually I remember that one as the DE had me fly that NDB for a
circle to land on my check ride and it was down wind against opposing
traffic. We must have looked kinda strange coming down the approach
to those airliners getting ready to depart.

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

On Fri, 09 Jun 2006 02:59:12 -0400, Roger
wrote:

At one time, maybe they still do, TVC (Traverse City) had an NDB
approach off what was also the LOM on the ILS. Of course it was
pointed in the same direction as the ILS, but you could do a circle to
land off it.

Until recently (it was still there in 2005) Fort Collins-Loveland
(FNL) had NDB 33 and ILS 33 approaches. The circling minimum for the
ILS33 was 484 ft. agl, and for NDB33 504 ft. agl.

I don't know when the NDB33 approach got decommisioned, the COLLN
NDB/LOM transmitter is still there.

However, Greeley-Weld Count (GXY) has a fairly new NDB 34 approach,
based on the BUFFS NDB/LOM for the ILS34 approach. Again, the
circling minimums for the ILS approach are lower than those for the
NDB.

I assumed colocated ILS and NDB approaches were not uncommon.

Tim.

"Roger" wrote in message
...

At one time, maybe they still do, TVC (Traverse City) had an NDB
approach off what was also the LOM on the ILS.


At one time, nearly every airport with an ILS had an NDB approach off what
was also the LOM on the ILS.



Of course it was
pointed in the same direction as the ILS, but you could do a circle to
land off it. OTOH they also had a VOR that would have been a lot
easier and made more sense, at least to me.


You could do a circle to land off of the ILS as well.