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Sam and others, I have about 1,100 hours now with about 700 of those flown
after getting my instrument rating in the US back in 2003. Since then I have flown IFR almost twice per week. On a web-based aviation forum there is a general disagreement of the terms DA (decision altitude) versus DH (decision height) when talking about an ILS approach. For those approaches that have published altitude minimums (typically ILS CAT I or CAT II in the US), I was taught that the point at which one would begin the missed approach is the decision height, or DH. However, in that aviation forum there are a few who insist that this point is called the decision altitude, or DA, and that DH is not valid for aircraft not equipped with radar altimeter. I did note that the current Pilot/Controller's glossary defines both DA and DH as the point at which a missed does begin on a precision approach, but the DA definition also includes the note about it being an ICAO definition. Is this a case of semantics? Are DA and DH interchangeable when discussing the point at which a missed begins? Or is there a more important distinction between the two and I was simply taught inadequately? -- Peter |
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