[Premium-Rx] Beacon Hunting

[Ben Dover]

Hello Jerry.

>>I might be off base here because I'm not an aviator, but telling pilots that
NDB's can help you find airports in bad weather and then slipping in a few
here and there on top of tall towers seems like a classic gummint bad idea..
:-)
Jerry W5KP<<


I agree totally. THAT'S why I was so surprised to discover that one!

Also... this sort of thing demands that the pilot constantly be aware of his
exact position, and keep the NDB off of one wingtip on the ADF dial (as
close to
270 or 90 degrees relative as he can get it) as he comes in. It's just another
mental chore in an already cluttered environment.

Mr. T.




At 06:45 AM 4/1/2005 -0600, you wrote:
>I might be off base here because I'm not an aviator, but telling pilots that
>NDB's can help you find airports in bad weather and then slipping in a few
>here and there on top of tall towers seems like a classic gummint bad idea..
>:-)
>Jerry W5KP
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>"Occasionally, NDBs are used to mark obstructions; I remember being rather
>surprised to find that an NDB used to be (maybe still is) attached to a
>very tall TV tower in the Dallas area, simply to mark it's location and warn
>aircraft
>off of a potential collision hazard. Information on the NDB in this case is
>clearly marked on the sectional navigation charts that pilots use."
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