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Readback: April 2013

Gemini Sparkle

Key Takeaways:

  • New FAA policy will mandate charting localizer offset values for various instrument approaches, a detail not always published currently.
  • Pilots may occasionally be directed by Flight Services to contact ATC directly for IFR clearances, and Lockheed Martin encourages pilots to provide feedback on such instances.
  • The article addresses outdated "WAAS unreliable" chart notes, explaining that real-time WAAS LPV guidance is dynamic, and clarifies corrections to IFR departure procedures and approach minimums (only visibility is adjusted for inoperative lighting, not DA/MDA).
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Where’s the Runway?
In December’s Readback, reader Mark Spencer asked about localizer offsets. In the answer, you said the offset value is not published for LDA approaches. That’s true for now. However a change to policy for the FAA will require charting the amount of offset for any ILS, LOC, MLS, LDA, LDA w/GS, RNP, LPV, LNAV and LNAV/VNAV approach.

…an inside source at the FAA
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

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