Originally Posted by
yippipie
On the little I can glean from the site, bookworm, my main issue is lack of topo' info'. SSAs are all well and good... if you get there before hitting the hill you didn't know about, whilst barely climbing at MTOW and high workload--or worse.
If you conform to the procedures you won't hit the hill. While I agree that topo info is a useful adjunct from a situational awareness point of view, you can get most of what you need for that from a glance at a half-mil topo. Unambiguous depiction of the procedure is, IMHO, more important.