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Old 10th Aug 2011, 13:34
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The first document has what you are looking for in Section E. Note that the issue is not really effect on minimums so much as it is on procedural segments that are higher. The intermediate segment may have as little as 500 feet of obstacle clearance. Yet if it is 2,000 feet above field elevation and the temperatures are very low, you may impact terrain while flying at the proper indicated altitude in the intermediate segment.

Also, where initial approach segments are on the order of 5,000 to 6,000 feet, or so, higher than field elevation, even the minimum initial segment obstacle clearance altitude of 1,000 feet can no longer exist at all.
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