Mention Morristown to an active pilot, and they’ll probably be quick to pinpoint it as a busy New Jersey airport 20 or so miles west of downtown Manhattan. This month’s Chart Wise, however, focuses on another Morristown, population 29,000, this one in Tennessee, a half-hour northeast of Knoxville.
Chart Wise: Training and Technique
Key Takeaways:
- The article focuses on Morristown, TN's Moore-Murrell Airport (MOR), distinguishing it from the busy Morristown, NJ airport.
- MOR offers an educational opportunity related to a Simplified Directional Facility (SDF) approach, which is a disappearing ground-based approach system.
- SDFs are localizer-based approaches with a fixed signal width (6 or 12 degrees), wider and less precise than a traditional ILS localizer, but with similar cockpit needle reaction.
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