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Random Griz Aviation Musings

A couple years ago my company contracted to have all of our Special Use approaches in the region to be updated by a new company and I had to go fly a couple of them with the guy who was validating them. It wasn't a complicated process, but kind of interesting to watch. Since the approach wasn't valid, it wasn't in the data base so I had to build the approaches manually in the GPS (a laborious process on the legacy Garmins). Then we'd fly an approach with his laptop out that validated our actual position. He would also look for obstacles that may have been missed (which happened) and then notate them in his software.

The end product was light years ahead of what we previously had, to include having actual weather mins and not having to do the mental math of subtracting nearby field elevation from the pad elevation and then carrying the one and then...inevitably screwing it up. Basically it was a much more professional end product.
 
We kept a hand built RNAV approach built on our brick as the ‘E’ in PACE when out of the country. 60F/H software had the ability to build the approach but required us to double check the build.

BL - was there for sudden sandstorms after the PAR and TACAN were down from mortar hits.
 
hscs said:
60F/H software had the ability to build the approach but required us to double check the build.
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Before whatever nav upgrades you ended up getting, did you have issues holding GPS in turns in the F/H? It was a known issue in the B when you would wrap it up. It would come right back, but it was something to be aware of when doing ASW so your plot didn't shift over to East Jesus.
 
hscs said:
We kept a hand built RNAV approach built on our brick as the ‘E’ in PACE when out of the country. 60F/H software had the ability to build the approach but required us to double check the build.

BL - was there for sudden sandstorms after the PAR and TACAN were down from mortar hits.
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There were a number of AF near misses from manual entry of instrument approach fixes, that their Vol 3 (AF equiv of 3710) was changed mandate all instrument approaches had to be retrieved from a database, prohibiting manual entry.
 
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