Ndb approaches?

[paid4training]

Are there any airlines that shoot ndb approaches anymore or is everything Vor/ILS?

 

[Plankster]

My carrier does if it's the only one available .

 

[WMUSIGPI]

Only the Saabs are allowed to do them at Mesaba, the CRJs have to do GPS instead.

 

[v1valarob]

We use them as part of the approach. Don't think we have any airports that only have an NDB approach. Because of the limited radar coverage in some places, we can often be given direct to an NDB and the fly the full ILS after the procedure turn. Its often easier than being vectored very close in and having to "nose over" to catch the glideslope.

 

[SEVEN]

Are there any airlines that shoot ndb approaches anymore or is everything Vor/ILS?

Do them all the time in the Saab up at KCIU. NDB RW33 to mins in snowstorms all day long. At CYXU too.

 

[homerjdispatch]

SUN has one that the EMB's do out of SLC for OO when unable to do the GPS.

 

[flyboyike]

En-dee what?

 

[Rough67]

We do every so often.. 35 into PNS comes to mind if windy from the north.

 

[OCP]

9 years at ASA never done one other than Brasilia training.

 

[WMUSIGPI]

Do them all the time in the Saab up at KCIU. NDB RW33 to mins in snowstorms all day long. At CYXU too.

How long have you been off the Saab... I left it over 3.5 years ago and know both parts of that are currently wrong.... It would be 34 in CIU, and we haven't been to London on the Saab in ages.... Even going to Kitchner though, having a short crosswind runway didn't require an NDB...
Actually come to think of it. Not only Kitchner but now London have been cut entirely by Delta....