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It's hard to find NDB approaches at all anymore. Did you do IR in the US? The FAA from what I've read doesn't even encourage an instrument checkride in IMC. That's crazy you did it twice.

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Yes, US in the late 90s.

I went to colllege to become an airline pilot, and I was shocked that I ended up having to fly an NDB approach in actual conditions to minimums. You just don't see that anymore.

And the tolerances on the checkride is that you can only deviate from the course by a certain number of degrees.

I vividly remember staring at the ADF with the needle swinging wildly left to right as we were tossed around thinking "surely I can't get failed for turbulence"?

I also did my IFR in the 90ies on steam gauges. Our ADFs didn't even have the rotating dial, so you had to keep them synchronized with the direction indicator manually. What a pain. Moving maps in the cockpit must be the greatest safety feature ever invented.

Thanks so much for sharing. I wrapped up instrument earlier this year entirely in a TAA. Went out with my CFII a few times in steam gauge because I felt like I was missing out

It can vary greatly across the country. My instructor loved to use LORAN which one of the planes was equipped with (and was shut down shortly afterwards).

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