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Experience in the Chair: Guiding a Twin Beech Home

Air Facts

The equipment was often not much modernized from the military days so the pilots likely hoped for good weather as they filed their flight plans. The longest runways had front course and back course ILS (Instrument Landing Systems) and an on-field VOR that provided navigation and approach capabilities for aircraft on instrument flights.

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Wrong Way Woes

Ask the Pilot

The pilots, the flight attendants, and their aircraft were dispatched, flight-planned, and fueled for a trip to Edinburgh. Essentially you eyeball the airport through the windshield, report “field in sight” to ATC, get your clearance and go ahead and land. angle irresistible.