In article ,
Roy Smith wrote:

In article ,
"karl gruber" wrote:

No.

You can be 6.7 miles out at 680/DME.

Maybe I'm just thick, but that's not how I read the chart.

After DARTS, you can descend to 2600. After BEVEY, you can descend to
1120. What happens after that depends on whether you can identify CULVE or
not. If you can identify CULVE, once you reach it, you can descend to 680.
Without CULVE, you have to stay at 1120 until you have the runway in sight.

That's my understanding as well -- the chart isn't particularly
ambiguous on this, either...


Look at the plan view. There's a 863 tower at what looks like about 1/2
mile right of the FAC. I'm sure that's the controlling terrain for the
1120 MDA between BEVEY and CULVE.

Indeed. Having briefly worked in the building that that obstruction
represents, I hope there aren't too many pilots out there in IMC
dropping below 1120 before they're at least abeam that point...

Hamish