Sun Feb 25, 2018 9:40 am
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Longfinal wrote:And all that using only CADF!
I have yet to see a Speechless NCNG Emergency QGH...!
riverrock wrote:Is NCNG a standard part of an approach controller's repertoire, and its just Area controllers who don't know it?
Probably the latter. I was taught it on the Approach Radar Course prior to the Area Radar Course. In those days we had to be able to do all sorts of magic using D/F traces, and without secondary radar. Perhaps NCNG has been erroneously perceived as part of only an Approach Radar controller's arsenal. Everybody ended up with both radar ratings in those days so most people had had a go at it at some time, either on the Hurn sim or by using the DH Dove targets for real. When economics required specialisation in either Approach radar control or Area radar control maybe it didn't feature in the syllabus for the latter. That's when the expertise rot set in.