Folks
Part in preparation for a certain sim airliner maker releasing a DC-6 and part nostalgia, I fired up FS9 yesterday and flew a couple of Cal Classic birds up and down the US west coast. In the days before INS, let alone RNP, how did airliners approach airports? Did they simply turn up on a radial from where they came and get vectored from a point to an ILS, or descend DME steps until visual and then circle to land? Or were there STARs of a fashion using VORs and NDBs (thank heavens for a navigator!)?
Subsequently, when did STARs become common place? Was an INS accurate enough once there were ground stations in range, or were they too slow/cumbersome to program to be worth it.
I know this corner of the forum is pretty dead, but hopefully it will hang around in the recent topic list for someone to grab it for me...
Cheers
Mike