Long ago I was observing a check ride after we finished the avionics test flight I was on board the commercial Hercules airfreighter for.
One checkee was doing a NDP approach, IIRC to 600 feet and a mile - when blind pulled away runway was not in sight.
He was a mile abeam it.
A very capable F/O in the third seat tried to give him a clue by asking him where he was, checkee just pointed to instruments and carried on.
(I did not understand what he did, from my seat at the navigator table well behind him.)
[The operator was using relatively inexperienced pilots in the third seat which has limited duties in the Herc - a small overhead panel. But the failed checkee - a male person - had been an instructor for a flying school!
OTOH, the F/O was an ace, became captain far earlier than typical.]
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