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.
- It highlights the Simplified Directional Facility (SDF), a type of ground-based approach that is becoming less common but may still be encountered by pilots.
- SDFs are localizer-based approaches providing a fixed signal width (6 or 12 degrees), which is wider and less precise than a standard ILS localizer, though the cockpit instrument reacts similarly.
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