Hi MEL;
In the US the controllers are the ones who start the MAP process in design. However, we are guided by a book called TERPS that tells us what we can and can't do as well as an order that goes into even more of what we can and can't do <G>. Once we are done doing the design, it then goes to the AVN folks in OKC where they do all of the looing into the charting of procedures and drawing them up to ensure that what we did was correct. This group of folks is made up of both former controllers and flight check folks. So yes pilots are involved. We also look at flyability checks on most everything that we design...
I hope that helps, and as to runway 13R at DFW in a south flow. You indeed have to start your turn to the south IMMEDIATELY or you wind up having a close encounter of the worst kind <G>...
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