"Peter Duniho" wrote in
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I agree with your instructor. AFAIK, there is NEVER a requirement to
make a procedure turn. The "NoPT" exists to prohibit a procedure
turn, not to tell you when you are required to make one. Obviously,
if you're going the wrong way, you need a course reversal at some
point. But that's a practical requirement, not a regulatory one.


AIM 5-4-9 a. The procedure turn or hold in lieu of procedure turn is a
required maneuver.


Of course, lacking the "NoPT", you are of course welcome to fly the
whole procedure turn. But you're looking at 45 seconds or so just to
get established outbound parallel to the final approach course, and
that's not counting the time spent flying back to it (and then, of
course, the time for the procedure turn itself). I'm betting not many
people fly the procedure turn coming in from WILMA.


true on that last sentence, but it's because you always get vectors.