Checks,
No appologies necessary. After all it's about WHAT'S right, not WHO's right.
A2,
Your response brings up some interesting points. However, I use a more linear rational based on the following:
P/C Glossary:
SEGMENTS OF AN INSTRUMENT APPROACH PROCEDURE- An instrument approach procedure may have as many as four separate segments depending on how the approach procedure is structured.
a. Initial Approach- The segment between the initial approach fix and the intermediate fix or the point where the aircraft is established on the intermediate course or final approach course.
b. Intermediate Approach- The segment between the intermediate fix or point and the final approach fix.
c. Final Approach- The segment between the final approach fix or point and the runway, airport, or missed approach point.
d. Missed Approach- The segment between the missed approach point or the point of arrival at decision height and the missed approach fix at the prescribed altitude.
(Refer to 14 CFR Part 97.)
AIM:
5-4-5. Instrument Approach Procedure Charts
a. 14 CFR Section 91.175(a), Instrument approaches to civil airports, requires the use of SIAP's prescribed for the airport in 14 CFR Part 97 unless otherwise authorized by the Administrator (including ATC).
Sec. 91.175
Takeoff and landing under IFR.
(a) Instrument approaches to civil airports.
Unless otherwise authorized by the Administrator, when an instrument letdown to a civil airport is necessary, each person operating an aircraft, except a military aircraft of the United States, shall use a standard instrument approach procedure prescribed for the airport in part 97 of this
chapter.
Sec. 97.3
Symbols and terms used in procedures.
(c) Approach procedure segments for which altitudes (all altitudes are minimum altitudes unless otherwise specified) or courses, or both, are prescribed in procedures, are as follows:
(1) Initial Approach...
(2) Initial Approach Altitude...
(3) Intermediate Approach...
(4) Final Approach...
(5) Missed Approach...
This is not to say there isn't a legal interpretation somewhere that proves otherwise, but I haven't seen it.
Peace
No appologies necessary. After all it's about WHAT'S right, not WHO's right.
A2,
Your response brings up some interesting points. However, I use a more linear rational based on the following:
P/C Glossary:
SEGMENTS OF AN INSTRUMENT APPROACH PROCEDURE- An instrument approach procedure may have as many as four separate segments depending on how the approach procedure is structured.
a. Initial Approach- The segment between the initial approach fix and the intermediate fix or the point where the aircraft is established on the intermediate course or final approach course.
b. Intermediate Approach- The segment between the intermediate fix or point and the final approach fix.
c. Final Approach- The segment between the final approach fix or point and the runway, airport, or missed approach point.
d. Missed Approach- The segment between the missed approach point or the point of arrival at decision height and the missed approach fix at the prescribed altitude.
(Refer to 14 CFR Part 97.)
AIM:
5-4-5. Instrument Approach Procedure Charts
a. 14 CFR Section 91.175(a), Instrument approaches to civil airports, requires the use of SIAP's prescribed for the airport in 14 CFR Part 97 unless otherwise authorized by the Administrator (including ATC).
Sec. 91.175
Takeoff and landing under IFR.
(a) Instrument approaches to civil airports.
Unless otherwise authorized by the Administrator, when an instrument letdown to a civil airport is necessary, each person operating an aircraft, except a military aircraft of the United States, shall use a standard instrument approach procedure prescribed for the airport in part 97 of this
chapter.
Sec. 97.3
Symbols and terms used in procedures.
(c) Approach procedure segments for which altitudes (all altitudes are minimum altitudes unless otherwise specified) or courses, or both, are prescribed in procedures, are as follows:
(1) Initial Approach...
(2) Initial Approach Altitude...
(3) Intermediate Approach...
(4) Final Approach...
(5) Missed Approach...
This is not to say there isn't a legal interpretation somewhere that proves otherwise, but I haven't seen it.
Peace
