VOR approach SMO

In article .com,
"Robert M. Gary" wrote:

On Jul 23, 9:39 am, "Robert M. Gary" wrote:
The other day I shot the VOR approach into SMO for the first time in
low actual.

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So, in the end it sounds like if everyone on this list had just
grabbed the chart and flown the approach, about 3/4 of the people
would have died (gone down to 680 before CULVE). Wow, does it seem
like the FAA should make this chart a bit more clear?

I still don't see what's ambiguous about the charts, to be honest --
it's not a difficult chart to understand, and it's pretty clear from
both the NACO and Jepp versions that you absolutely can't go below 1120
until CULVE unless you're on the visual.

So yes, it's really pretty scary that there might be IFR-rated pilots
out there who got this wrong (Karl has said elsewhere that he doesn't
have an IFR rating, so that excuses him), but I don't think the chart's
the cause of the confusion...

Hamish