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Old 8th Dec 2011, 16:39
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VOR APROACHES WITH THE MISSED APPROACH POINT ON THE LEGS PAGE BEYOND THE RUNWAY THRESHOLD AND CIRCLING ONLY APROACHES DO NOT HAVE THESE FEATURES."
Not if you can comply with 1 or 2.
I'd be careful with this and #2. There appears to be a contradiction here.

If you look at KPWA, the VOR approaches to both 17L & 35R have the missed approach point at the VOR which is beyond both thresholds at the mid-field point.

But both approaches are 737 FMS coded with RW17L & RW35R waypoints and 54' TCH's (MSL altitudes) associated with the RWxx waypoints but no GP angle.

So that above info from the FTCM about these type approaches not having any of those coded features is suspect.

With VNAV selected, I would be careful not to end up in VNAV SPD (A/T idle) to mins instead of VNAV PATH. How the approaches would actually fly is suspect then also. Have someone try one of these in the sim first if you've got PWA in the database.

Maybe terpster or FPOBN can shed some light on this??
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