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Readback: July 2013

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Key Takeaways:

  • The FAA is actively reviewing and canceling unused instrument approach procedures, especially costly VORs, to streamline operations and prioritize performance-based navigation.
  • The article clarifies and corrects several technical details, including the proper understanding of wind shifts during descent, the definition of Vertical Descent Angle (VDA), and eligibility for Continuous Descent Final Approaches (CDFA) to derived decision altitudes (DDA).
  • Editors acknowledge and address reader feedback on various topics, such as the readability of instrument displays in quizzes, the economic contribution of foreign students, and a humorous clarification about Santa's magnetic North Pole home.
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In “Readback” in June, you said that the major airports at the heart of Class B airspace typically only use ILS and visual approaches.

Why, then, does the FAA continue to plan, update, certify and flight check all the other approaches to these airports? It must be a considerable cost—in time and money—that could be used elsewhere in these days of sequester.

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