Free-Flying

Youre living the good life and working the system-the tax system. You work in Portland, Oregon, with no sales tax, but live across the river in Vancouver, Washington, with no income tax. So, you can at last afford that glass-panel bird. After flying it across the U.S. to bring it home, its finally time to load the last approach of the trip: The LDA-A into Pearson Field in Vancouver (KVUO). Except the approach isnt in the GPS database.

Key Takeaways:

• The LDA-A approach into Pearson Field (KVUO) is absent from GPS databases because its localizer is shared with Portland International (KPDX), a configuration unsupported by ARINC coding.
• Pilots must manually tune the localizer and either use traditional navigation methods (VOR radials, timing) or build a custom GPS flight plan with user-defined waypoints for enhanced situational awareness.
• Key operational considerations include the requirement for radar vectors, a high Minimum Descent Altitude (MDA) that may necessitate circling, and the approach's unavailability if KPDX is simultaneously using the shared localizer for its Runway 28R.

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