instrument approach procedure

[′in·strə·mət a¦prōch prə‚sē·jər]

(navigation)

A series of predetermined maneuvers for the orderly transfer of an aircraft under instrument flight conditions from the initial approach to a landing, or to a point from which a landing can be made visually.

instrument approach procedure

A series of predetermined maneuvers by reference to flight instruments with protection from obstacles from the initial approach fix, or where applicable, from the beginning of a defined arrival route to a point from which a landing can be completed and thereafter, if a landing is not completed, to a position at which holding or en-route obstacle clearance criteria apply (ICAO). The instrument approach charts indicate these procedures.

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Jeppesen, Sanderson, Inc., a commercial publishing house, reformats, translates, and publishes instrument approach procedures utilized by air traffic controllers in the host nation.

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The TSB is now asking Transport Canada (TC) to require that approach charts used by pilots to depict the optimal path to be flown rather than the line joining the obstacle clearance altitudes which is currently shown and that the stabilised constant descent angle approach technique be used by Canadian operators that conduct non-precision instrument approach procedures.

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