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Old September 18th 03, 07:05 PM
Ray Andraka
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How are the intersections it now uses identified? DME or a crossing radial?

Ben Jackson wrote:

In article ,
Ray Andraka wrote:
The reason for the change is to comply with an initiative to prepare the
ILS approaches for
RNAV. Part of that initiative requires the location of the glideslope
to be at an a 100'
interval. Most OM's are not, and it is too expensive to move them, so


Ohhhh, this must explain why HIO ILS 12 no longer uses ABATE LOM.
I had assumed that the few hundred feet they tacked onto 12/30 had
made it too close to the threshold (though that was obviously a
stretch!).

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