Yep, the PAR is still alive and well. On reserve duty, I shot a PAR into Missawa and Atsugi yesterday. Weather was down near mins in Missawa and their G/S on the ILS was down. I'm glad we still practice those old PAR's. It saved the day yesterday. The Japaneese Final Controller did an awesome job (way better than the American guys back home). Then we dropped off our pax, got a quick drink for the plane, and headed to Atsugi. We got another PAR to keep up the skill set we have lost in our airline gig..... this time the controller was slow, couldn't correct for the crosswind; we could see on the moving map that he was keeping us right of course. We broke out with plenty of time to correct and land. Let's hope he's not working when the wx is at mins, and the nearest island is an hour and a half away at the next 3rd world hole.
-Aloha