Instrument Flight Rules Terminology - Instrument Approach, Standard Instrument Departure, Instrument Meteorological Conditions (Paperback)

Chapters: Instrument Approach, Standard Instrument Departure, Instrument Meteorological Conditions, Minimum Safe Altitude, Lowest Safe Altitude, Standard Terminal Arrival Route, Minimum Obstacle Clearance Altitude, Minimum En Route Altitude, Visual Approach, Minimum Reception Altitude. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 36. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: In aviation, an instrument approach or instrument approach procedure (IAP) is a type of air navigation that allows pilots to land an aircraft in reduced visibility (known as instrument meteorological conditions or IMC), or to reach visual conditions permitting a visual landing. Approaches are classified as either precision or nonprecision, depending on the accuracy and capabilities of the navigational aids (navaids) used. Precision approaches utilize both lateral (localizer) and vertical (glideslope) information. Nonprecision approaches provide lateral course information only. The publications depicting instrument approach procedures are called Terminal Procedures, but are commonly referred to by pilots as "approach plates." These documents graphically depict the specific procedure to be followed by a pilot for a particular type of approach to a given runway. They depict prescribed altitudes and headings to be flown, as well as obstacles, terrain, and potentially conflicting airspace. In addition, they also list missed approach procedures and commonly-used radio frequencies. Instrument approaches are generally designed such that a pilot of an aircraft in instrument meteorological conditions (IMC), by the means of radio, GPS or INS navigation with no assistance from air traffic control, can navigate to the airport, hold in the vicinity of the airport if required, then fly to a position from where he or she can obtain sufficient vis...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=175249