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dekster73
16th Sep 2011, 16:30
What benefit for me as a pilot the info : pans-ops 4,5.... on the bottom of the app chart ??what difference it's to me when applying the charted minima?

Sleepybhudda
18th Sep 2011, 12:56
The procedure may have been made using NATO (unlikely) or American TERPS critera. Which have different clearences from obstacles and terrain.
Heres a good article
SKYbrary - Circling Approach - difference between ICAO PANS-OPS and US TERPS (http://www.skybrary.aero/index.php/Circling_Approach_-_difference_between_ICAO_PANS-OPS_and_US_TERPS)