Ceiling NDB Pilot 
Air Facts
OCTOBER 30, 2024
Air Facts Journal I got my pilot’s license in 1984, but it was another five years before I became a pilot. Beginning almost forty years ago, I spent time in the cockpit with a series of pilots whose influence I have only recently started to appreciate. We flew the usual approaches: VOR, ILS, and the now extinct NDB.
Fear of Landing
JANUARY 3, 2025
The flight crew requested an NDB approach to Grozny and were cleared for approach to runway 26. About a minute later: Flight 8243 : Now the hydraulics have failed The weather at Makhachkala was no better regardless of which source we use: a cloud ceiling of 750 feet with visibility down to 3,300 metres in haze.
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