On 08/05/06 20:16, Bob Gardner wrote:
Yes. The minimum descent altitude is 10,200...either land (good luck!),
circle, or do the miss at the MAP. I've never done this approach in a sim or
in real life, so I'm just going by the plate.

As a general rule, not limited to this approach, nothing regulatory keeps
you from landing straight in if you are in position to do so, even with
circling-only minima. Doing so will always be tough.

Well, they say you must be able to complete the approach and land using
"normal" maneuvers. They don't define "normal", but I would think a really
steep descent would not be normal.


Bob Gardner


Bob Gardner

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"SimGuy" wrote in message
news The plate is here-

http://www.airnav.com/depart?http://.../05889VDGC.PDF

While trying to fly the approach in the sim I flew to the MAP with
relative ease but had trouble getting low enough to make the runway
without getting too hot. Looking at the plate it seems a drop of 2380'
must be made between MAFMU and the runway in a lateral distance of
1.4NM, this is a descent angle of 15 degrees!

Could someone please confirm this or help with my interpretation of
the chart. I am a PP beginning instrument training.

TIA

On Sat, 5 Aug 2006 18:09:35 -0700, "Bob Gardner"
wrote:

You get a clue from the fact that there are no straight-in minimums. Then
there is the "C" in the title. When there is no runway number, one of two
things is evident: either the runway is not aligned with the final
approach
course (not in this case, of course), or the descent rate does not meet
the
400-foot per mile maximum allowable descent rate. You have to circle.

Bob Gardner

(you top-posted so I moved your message)

Thanks, that makes much more sense. But I have a question- the
circling minimum is 10,200', this applies up to the MAP right?
Obviously in circling the runway one would need to get lower.





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