Originally Posted by
Lead Balloon
Anyone able to give a rational, safety-based explanation for extending CTAF procedures to 20nm radius? I don’t get it.
I'd hazard a guess that it is to contain the initial approach fixes for a standard 5/5/5 Y or T bar RNAV procedure. CASA have a serious fixation on lateral/vertical separation of RNAV procedures OCTA , and keeping aircraft on an instrument approach on one frequency to cater for all the IFR aircraft that are not flying around with dual coms
