Originally Posted by
BoilerUP
IIRC (its been five years so I'm probably wrong), VOR approaches can be flown "white needle" FMS NAV but you have to have a pointer up with the ground based nav, in this case the VOR. The PM display might have to be "green needle" ground-based nav, but I don't remember.
VOR OTS, no pointer, no able approach.
When I left AWAC, it was kind of befuddling to me that the 25 year Citation II with single KLN-90B I was flying could fly RNAV approaches but a <10 year old CRJ-200 with single FMS-4200 could not.
Yep, that's how I remember it too. Can use white needles, but the bearing pointer needs to be up as well. I remember going through initial at AWAC and thinking that it was stupid that they didn't allow for RNAV approaches in there op specs. Get in the 20th century for pete's sake!