Today I am joined by a few other members of my community to help answer a question that I have seen asked time, and time again within the DCS World Community on forums, comment sections and in discussions. That is the simple question of why does the F/A-18 Hornet lack ILS equipment and the capability to fly an precision approach through IMC to an Airfield? You can of course fly a Non-Precision TACAN-HI or LOW approach but what if the weather is below the minimums of such an approach like the marine layer that is commonly found at places like MCAS Miramar or NAS North Island. In that Case you request a GCA or ground controlled approach that usually if not always takes the form of a PAR Approach or Precision Approach Radar for an F/A-18 Hornet. In order to demonstrate to you guys what a PAR Approach looks like we have with us an Active Duty US Navy ATC Controller who goes by Squid on Discord and enough pilots to fill two flights of two Hornets consisting of T-Bolt and Shooter flights. Squid as Al Minhad Approach will be using LotATC to take the place of the radar equipment found in a real GCA shack at a military air base. While not as precise or as intuitive as the real equipment, LotATC is a great tool to use for this demonstration but isn’t without its quirks, the biggest of which is the tendency for LotATC’s extended centerline to bring pilots .3 NM south of the runway on the Persian Gulf map, creating more of a circle to land situation when breaking out of the clouds and going visual. Something important to note here is that most of the foreign customers of the F/A-18C notably Finland had the ICLS equipment removed and replaced with ground based ILS equipment. The US Navy and Marines elected to only have built in ICLS due to space and weight saving and the wide availability of GCA PAR approaches at US Military air bases. ►System Specs DCS/Gaming PC: GPU: GeForce RTX 2080 Ti CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-10900K CPU @ 5.20GHz Memory: 64 GB RAM 3600mhz Current resolution: 2560 x 1080, 144Hz ►►System Specs Dedicated Server/Video Editing PC: GPU: GeForce RTX 2080 Ti CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 3800X @ 3.9GHz Memory: 32GB RAM ►►Here is a link to my Patreon Page every bit of support helps make awesome DCS videos and missions possible! https://www.patreon.com/Spudknocker​​ ►►If you want to contact me with feedback on videos or want to collaborate feel free to join my personal discord here: https://discord.gg/kADuSzS​​\ ►►And if you do donate to my Patreon make sure to link your discord account for your Roles in my Discord server.