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Old 1st August 2006 | 19:52
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Pierre Argh
 
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Bogbeagle... as you may have guessed the design of the procedure assumes a level of accuracy from the pilot, and although that accuracy will be included within the original designation of the Final Approach Segment Size... the specifics are not available to a procedure designer... and I believe you should be asking that to a pilot Instrument Rating examiner not an ATCO/Procedure Designer.

What I can assure you is that, as DFC says, the segement takes into account aid accuracy and error, pilot accuracy (whatever that is) a whole host of other factors and then a bit for the wife & kids for good measure. Look at the figuyres above, the the segments for NP Approaches are massive... hence high minimas often have to be accepted.
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