"Sam Spade" wrote in message
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How do you conclude that?

A decision altitude is a minimum approach altitude, too, in a broad use of
a term that lacks any official definition.


The term would be "decision height" in the US, not "decision altitude".
It's an MDA because nothing else fits. The DH (Decision Height, the height
at which a decision must be made during an instrument approach where an
electronic glideslope is provided to either continue the approach or to
execute a missed approach) for the full ILS RWY 36 was 264 MSL, 200' above
the TDZE (Touchdown Zone Elevation, the highest elevation in the first 3000'
of runway) of 64'. The MDA (Minimum Descent Altitude, the lowest altitude
to which descent is authorized on final approach in execution of a standard
instrument approach procedure where no electronic glideslope is provided)
for the ILS RWY 36 to straight-in localizer minimums was 440 MSL, 376' above
the TDZE.

Think of an MDA as an altitude to be maintained while a DH is an altitude to
be flown through.



Besides, no one has any way of determining whether the pilot was flying
the LOC or ILS profile.


Yes, I already pointed that out.



Yes, but "above ground level" is a term of ignorance.


Not at all, the term is used quite often in aviation.