"John Harper" wrote in message
news:1072129171.853216@sj-nntpcache-3...
I flew the San Jose (KSJC) ILS 30L approach on Sunday, and
noticed that there is no charted FAF, i.e. no Maltese Cross. I
use Jepp plates but I just looked at the NOS plate on the AOPA
site and it's the same. There's also no OM - although there is
an MM.

Seems strange - anyone have any idea why? I thought that all
approaches had to have an FAF?

John



The cross denotes the FAF for a non-precision approach. You will often see
them on ILS profiles only because many ILS approach plates depict localizer
approaches as well. But the SJC ILS 30L plate does not -- see the note
about flying the LOC DME.

Cheers,
John Clonts
Temple, Texas
N7NZ