Right on the money again
Westhawk!
When you talk about RNAV/GNSS you're talking to a bloke who's a dyed-in-the-wool supporter! The only problem in my part of the world is that I'm faced with many major airports that have significant terrain problems that can't even be solved by installing an ILS. Thus I'm forced to employ cirlcing approaches, with circling restrictions, for the sake of getting a usable MDA.
The problem with this is that some of the datacard manufacturers refuse to include circling approaches in their database. Thus, the companies that need these approaches normally end up having to enter into a special (read "higher price") relationship with Jeppesen to have the approaches coded onto their own cards. I've never been happy about that but, then, I understand the litigation argument of the datacard manufacturers in regard to circling approaches.
Thanks for the link to the Aspen prang. I'd read it quite some time ago, but the intervening quantity of booze made recall a tad difficult.
Reading the report brought the memory flooding back, so thanks for that.
jonny... as far as I know, Jeppesen identify Pans Ops criteria on all the charts they reproduce, when the procedures are designed to that criteria. If this is correct (I've only seen Jepp charts for a very small proportion of the world), I assume that the absense of this identification would mean that the procedure is designed to TERPs criteria.
Perhaps someone who has broader experience of Jepp charts will be able to give a better answer?