Mesaba XJ - Hiring Stats - A guise???

[AvroGuy]

If there are still NDB approaches in service in the US you should now how to fly one, especially as a professional airline pilot. If the brand new $300,000 C172 you trained in did'nt have one, then go and rent one for a few hours with an ADF and get some dual before you enter the world of professional pilots. If you can't fly an NDB approach, you should be limited to weekend flying as a hobby.

PLZ, rent an airplane to be a professional airline pilot. That is almost as good as say you have to wear a hat to be a professional airline pilot.

Any person who has an instrument rating and hired by an airline should be able to pickup the ndb in the CRJ, especially with the wind drift indicator. That was the easies NDB I ever did during my Avro trng and now that I am on the CRJ we are not authorized to do NDB approaches at my current company. Also aren't the XJ Saabs getting GPS? How about an overlay of the approach. That is what we did in the AVRO for some of the approaches. That was for reference only still used primary nav for the approach. The fixes gave situational awareness.

 

[saabservant]

South Bend ILS was out of service a few years ago, we had to do an NDB to minimums...it was ugly, but I made it. (Comair went around).

The NDB is still a big part of flying in Canada, isn't it?
Besides, what else allows you to tune in AM hi-fi and sports...

 

[jmreii]

At the regional airline I flew for we were not allowed to do NDB approaches, and the company I fly for now uses garmin, ADF was being disconnected, welcome to the future finally.

 

[WMUSIGPI]

Any person who has an instrument rating and hired by an airline should be able to pickup the ndb in the CRJ, especially with the wind drift indicator. That was the easies NDB I ever did during my Avro trng and now that I am on the CRJ we are not authorized to do NDB approaches at my current company. Also aren't the XJ Saabs getting GPS? How about an overlay of the approach. That is what we did in the AVRO for some of the approaches. That was for reference only still used primary nav for the approach. The fixes gave situational awareness.

Ding Ding Ding, we have a winner.... at least someone else knows what I was talking about.
And yes the Saab FMS's do have the approaches in the database, we just aren't authorized to use them as primary nav.

 

[ImbracableCrunk]

Re: FMS

So I was flying into an airport that I hadn't been into in maybe 5 years.

I look down at the FMS for landing weight or something, and the screen is black. . .

"Uh, did you kill the box?"

"Yeah, it's not authorized for approaches."

"That doesn't mean it has to be off during an approach."

 

[avrorj-85]

I am very sorry about that IC, I promise next time we fly I will always be clapping so that I am unable to touch any more buttons...