The article contrasts the traditional "chop and drive" method for non-precision instrument approaches, which involved rapid descents to minimum descent altitude (MDA) and leveling off, with a more ...

Non-precision approaches (NPAs) are inherently less precise than ILS, with navaid geometry significantly impacting lateral accuracy and pilot workload, especially in poor conditions. Circling ...

Re non-precision approaches, my contention is much simpler than Andreas Jacobs imagines (Letters, Flight International, 4-10 June). Statistically, non-precision approaches are high on the list of ...

Every instrument-rated pilot knows that you are not allowed to descend below the decision altitude on a precision approach or minimum descent altitude (MDA) on a non-precision approach unless certain ...

Garmin has issued a service advisory on avionics that display advisory vertical guidance (+V) during certain non-precision instrument approaches. Non-precision approach advisory vertical guidance ...

Capt Prakash Goday (Letters, 21-27 May) draws the conclusion that because of the Air China crash at Busan (Flight International, 23-29 April) and “similar crashes”, non-precision approaches are “no ...

The two privately funded precision instrument approach procedures at Monmouth Executive Airport have lower minimums than the non-precision approaches that were originally approved for the airport.