Michael wrote:

Sam Spade wrote:



I don't know what you mean by recently, but I suspect it's less than 4
years. The practice that has now been made official has been used in
the Houston area for at least that long, on at least two approaches I
know of (both GPS RNAV). Both of these approaches serve small airports
where nothing bigger than a King Air 90 is ever seen (and nothing
bigger than a Baron is ever based) so it works fine.

As to recently, I believe it became effective this past February. And,
these things have to work for everyone, from Approach Category A to D.


So, it isn't really the AIM not staying up with the "real world," it's
the real world inventing its own rules.


That's right, the real world invents its own rules, and eventually the
FAA rules catch up to practice, as has happened here.

Sometimes that works, sometimes it results in airplanes flying into
mountains.