VOR approach SMO

karl gruber wrote:

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The MDA is 1120 unless you have DME. If you have DME then the MDA is 680
once you pass CULVE. You cannot descend below 1120 prior to CULVE even if
you see the runway unless you either cancel, get a contact approach, or a
visual approach.


If you have DME, IFRGPS, or ATC Radar, you can descend to 680 past
BEVEY............that is simply what that chart reads.

Karl


I can see how you could take the NACO chart that way, lacking an
understanding of what the line below 1120 means, and failing to
reference the asterik to the note "When tower closed, DME required."

If you look at the Jeppesen chart you cannot reach that erroneous
conculsion.