Standalone GPS

Bob Gardner wrote:

To keep me from looking at every approach plate PDF in the country for some
research I am doing, would you folks give me some examples of standalone
(not RNAV(GPS)) approaches in your areas of operation?

Thanks.

Bob Gardner

There is no procedural or design difference between a "stand-alone" GPS IAP and
an RNAV (GPS) IAP. The GPS IAP is an obsolete term and is deleted as the
procedure is reviewed and reissued.

And, when those approaches are reviewed, BARO VNAV minimums may be added if the
approach otherwise qualifies. If not, the minimums you see today would become
LNAV only minimums.

Bob Gardner wrote:

Several of you asked what I was looking for, and the answer lies in the
minimums box. The AIM goes on at great length about GLS, LPV, VNAV/LNAV,
etc, but the standalone approaches that you have suggested and I have
checked out have straight in and circling minimums, period. I realize that
there may be approaches in areas of the country from which I received no
replies.

I'm not going to lose sleep over the fact that most of the plates in THE
COMPLETE ADVANCED PILOT do not have the minimums boxes discussed in the AIM.

Bob

Bob Gardner wrote:

Nope. Look at a list of approaches for some airports and you will see both
"GPS Rwy 16" and "RNAV(GPS) Rwy 16." My area of interest was the minimums
box, since the ones I ran across when just guessing usually had only
circling approaches. Thought that the approach to Frederick, MD, that Phil
Boyer used in the AOPA video on WAAS would have something other than
circling, but I was wrong.

If I understand your negative sentence construction correctly, you are saying
that the RNAV IAPs at KFDK have only circling minimums? Not so.

Mike Rapoport wrote:

"Bob Gardner" wrote in message
...
To keep me from looking at every approach plate PDF in the country for
some research I am doing, would you folks give me some examples of
standalone (not RNAV(GPS)) approaches in your areas of operation?

Thanks.

Bob Gardner


I thought they changed the name of GPS approaches to RNAV a year or so ago.

Mike
MU-2

That's all it amounted to.