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, Tennessee's Moore-Murrell Airport (MOR) as a place to understand Simplified Directional Facilities (SDFs).
- SDFs are a type of localizer-based approach generating a fixed signal width (6 or 12 degrees), which is wider and less precise than a traditional ILS localizer.
- While SDFs are becoming rare, they provide similar left-right forward sensing in the cockpit to a standard localizer.
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