On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 15:27:03 +0000 (UTC),
(Paul Tomblin) wrote:

The first plate won't have the 1160
restriction, but will instead allow you to descend to the MDA after BELCH,
and the second will have a step down fix.


Hey...Thanks again for the info. This should help alleviate confusion
for all except Category E aircraft (aside from the pucker factor
regarding the 923' obstacle after BELCH). I'm wondering why they
don't just put in another cross radial from Chester to indicate
passage of the obstacle and clearance down to 900'. Both DME and
non-DME aircraft could then utilize the same approach. What might
restrict this is VOR inaccuracies, I'm not sure what criteria needs to
be met for that, but Chester is only about 20 miles away and it seems
like it could work.

Thanks again for the follow up, thanks to John for getting involved,
and good luck to Tim in solving this problem.

z