On Thu, 06 Oct 2005 08:23:29 -0700, Ron Garret
wrote:

No, it isn't. There is no "racetrack type procedure turn" on the chart.
There is a hold that is part of the missed approach. And if you fly
that hold so as to end up at SLI inbound then you've flown it in the
wrong direction.

Huh? On the NACO chart I am looking at there is a barb on R-200 from SLI
with 155°/335° on it. To the best of my knowledge, that indicates that the
type of procedure turn is up to the pilot.

Perhaps you are not aware that a racetrack pattern is one of the allowable
types of procedure turns. Review your IFR materials and you will discover
that it is.

To be more precise, I would turn right at SLI to a heading that will allow
me to track parallel to the inbound 020° course so that, with wind
correction, when I turn inbound I will be established on the FAC INBOUND to
SLI.

Other methods are acceptable, but you asked what *I* would do. You could
also, (and I probably would in mountainous terrain without GPS), continue
the right turn at SLI until intercepting R-200, and then do a 45° PT on the
SE side. But the choice of PT type is up to the pilot, in this instance.

And your correct about the MEA statement. I meant to type "descend *from*
the MEA" and not "*to* the MEA".


Ron (EPM) (N5843Q, Mooney M20E) (CP, ASEL, ASES, IA)