Originally Posted by
USMCFLYR
You should attend the SSWG (that would be Safety Systems Working Group) and state your case. It has only been in the Top 10 (usually in the Top 5) safety concerns - the need for a precision approach capability other than PAR - for the last 10 years I was involved and I retired in 2010.
I'm not computer literate enough - but somewhere there is a GIF (or something of the sort) of the *double facepalming* with Captain Jean-luc Picard and Number 1 that would be most appropriate here!
"Look down-Shoot down" - verbiage from the late 70s is key here.
Not even spies trolling for information are so.........out of their depth.
Do the -16s even shoot TACAN approaches?
I suppoes the you're right about the spies, but times are tough their intel folks may have had to downsize and outsource....
As for the approaches, why yes -16's do still shoot tacan approaches
There is a low level that is near there but enough speculation, sad day for the Viper/GA community