In a previous article, Greg Farris said:
Nope - Look at the VOR 14 approach to ITH (Ithaca New York - Just
grabbed the book and picked that one by chance). The VOR is on the
centerline, the runwya heading is 144.6° and the VOR approach is 133°. When

The VOR most definitely is NOT on the centerline. Look at the airport
diagram on that approach - it's a hundred feet or more from the
centerline.

you break out, you have to turn 11.6° right to land. I don't see why they
couldn't have published it right on the 145° radial.

Because then you would never cross the extended centerline, but would be
that same distance (a hundred feet or more) to one side. I'm guessing
that in a case like this they want the course to cross the runway
centerline some specific distance from the runway. Even ROC's VOR/DME 4
(an approach which I've never heard used in 10 years of being based at
ROC) is offset a tiny bit.


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