Originally Posted by
TonyWilliams
I think Coast Approach in Southern California used to offer PAR's to everybody who asked (and if they had the resources). I know that I did several PAR's (no-gyro) in the 1980's in a civil aircraft, albeit a USMC flying club plane into now defunct El Toro (NZJ).
But did they offer them to a strictly civil airport? I've never heard of a no-gyro PAR. Is/was there such a thing? I've flown several no-gyro ASR approaches.