Skipping fine print on procedure charts is common practice. We’ve all done it. It’s right up there with NOTAMs—those hard-to-read footnotes on stuff that, lots of the time, gets missed and isn’t that useful or meaningful anyway. But much of it is good-to-know information. So it behooves us to at least take a scan.
We’re departing Sioux Falls, South Dakota (KFSD) for a trip to Jeffersonville, Indiana (KJVY) via RNAV, with IMC for the entire four-hour flight. The usual way to cover your bases is to review departure procedures, maybe en-route charts, then approach charts, right? Perhaps, unless you’re one of those who (admirably) reads all the text from the top, rather than jumping straight to the meat in the middle.
