The plates for RNAV NPAs have a distance-to-runway scale at the base of the profile diagram.
Is this an afterthought? What is the point of printing the distance to run if you can't see that anywhere in front of you?
Did the engineers of the whole GPS approach format realise something after they had signed and sealed the design?
You need a distance to the runway for true situational awareness.
Any closer to fixing this? Probably not, it will take a fatal accident with a working CVR to get it fixed.
