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"License to taxi"
Mxsmanic wrote:
Paul Riley writes: Damn right they were good. I am a retired Master Army Aviator, and a PAR controller saved my life and those of my crew one night (1965) in Vietnam. Zero/zero , in fog, minimum fuel, no place to go. Brought me down safely in a helicopter. Was well worth the 2 quarts of Cutty Sark I gave them the next day. G God bless them all!!!! So a PAR is preferable to an ILS for safety/precision in very poor conditions, if you can find one? These days, at airports that have the facilities to permit it, airliners can take ILS's to the ground (CAT II, III). This is a big change from the way it was back in the late sixties for commercial traffic or just about anywhere (especially on ships or mobile encampments) for the military. |
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