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  • Chapter 1. Air Navigation › Section 2. Performance-Based Navigation (PBN) and Area Navigation (RNAV) › 1-2-3. Use of Suitable Area Navigation (RNAV) Systems on Conventional Procedures and Ro…

    example, if equipped with a suitable RNAV system, a pilot may fly a procedure or route based on operational VOR using that RNAV system without monitoring the VOR. 1. Additional information and associated requirements are available in Advisory Circular ... titled “Use of Suitable RNAV Systems on Conventional Routes and Procedures.” 2. Good planning and knowledge of your RNAV system are critical for safe and successful operations. 3. Pilots planning to use their RNAV system as a substitute means…

  • Chapter 5. Air Traffic Procedures › Section 4. Arrival Procedures › 5-4-7. Instrument Approach Procedures

    involved in an emergency situation will be given priority. If the pilot is not familiar with the specific approach procedure, ATC should be advised and they will provide detailed information on the execution of the procedure. h. The name ... issued that the inoperative or unreliable approach aid component is unusable, except when the title of the published approach procedures otherwise allows, for example, ILS or LOC. i. Pilots planning flights to locations which are private airfields or which have…

  • Chapter 5. Air Traffic Procedures › Section 4. Arrival Procedures › 5-4-1. Standard Terminal Arrival (STAR) Procedures

    coded IFR arrival route established for application to arriving IFR aircraft destined for certain airports. STARs simplify clearance delivery procedures, and also facilitate transition between en route and instrument approach procedures. 1. STAR procedures may have mandatory speeds and/or crossing ... have planning information depicted to inform pilots what clearances or restrictions to “expect.” “Expect” altitudes/speeds are not considered STAR procedures crossing restrictions unless verbally issued by ATC. Published speed restrictions are independent of altitude restrictions and are mandatory unless modified…

  • Chapter 5. Air Traffic Procedures › Section 2. Departure Procedures › 5-2-6. Abbreviated IFR Departure Clearance (Cleared. . .as Filed) Procedures

    route clearance. c. The clearance as issued will include the destination airport filed in the flight plan. d. ATC procedures now require the controller to state the DP name, the current number and the DP transition name after the phrase ... phrase, “then as filed,” for ALL departure clearances when the DP or DP transition is to be flown. The procedures apply whether or not the DP is filed in the flight plan. e. STARs, when filed in a flight plan…

  • Chapter 1. Air Navigation › Section 1. Navigation Aids › 1-1-18. Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS)

    WAAS receivers may flight plan to use any instrument approach procedure authorized for use with their WAAS avionics as the planned approach at a required alternate, with the following restrictions. When using WAAS at an alternate airport, flight planning must ... based on flying the RNAV (GPS) LNAV or circling minima line, or minima on a GPS approach procedure, or conventional approach procedure with “or GPS” in the title. Code of Federal Regulation (CFR) part 91 non-precision weather requirements must…

  • Appendix H. SAMPLE INSTRUMENT TRAINING AND PROFICIENCY PLAN

    back visual flight rules (VFR) cross-country (XC), with one leg focused on XC procedures (including diversion and lost procedures) and the other leg focused on airwork (“physical airplane” skills). Suggested activities include: AREA OF OPERATION (from Private Pilot PTS/ACS…