On Fri, 13 Jul 2007 21:43:13 -0400, Doug Vetter
wrote:

Tried it from 12K on the southern arc and 10 on the northern arc at
120KIAS. 750FPM seemed to get me where I was going through the
transition to final, but the final approach segment itself required
around 1000FPM just to reach minimums at the MDA.

Not exactly the kind of approach I'd care to shoot in hard IMC and in
icing at the end of a long day, but aviation is all about the challenge,
right? :-)

Terps allows the final approach segment up to a maximum of 400 feet
per nm. Check out the altitudes and distances, do they meet this? I
think the idea is that you should be able to fly this without
difficulty.

..Oh, and speaking of mountains, if you think the terrain is bad on
this
approach, check out the southern arc landing on 27. They have you
inbound at 10900 then drop you down to 9100 only a few miles from a peak
at 8499. Yikes.

Terps allow a minimum of 500 feet above all obstacles in the
intermediate segment. Sounds normal to me, and probably the same in
multiple places across the US. Can't say I remember if there is any
addition to terps minimums for segments that are in mountainous
regions, perhaps someone else knows.

-Doug


Stan