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Old November 18th 04, 10:01 AM
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Ron Natalie wrote:

It's not an issue of "making them go back." In most cases ULAKE would be
the IAF...this is where it is conencted to the victor airway. Having the
course reversal there (easy to do with the GPS approach) makes sense and
is agrees with the FAA guidance about what to do when terrain makes the
normal "T-fixed" approach design impractical.


The LOC IAP has the HIL pattern at the FAF. When GPS started, the FAA placed HIL
patterns at the FAF. They found out that created all kinds of
terminal-to-approach mode sequencing issues. So, the criteria were changed to
place the HIL at the intermediate fix (which causes that fix to be designated
IF/IAF although from a criteria standpoint it is an IF, not an IAF...the holding
pattern is what qualifies it as an IAF for the first pass over the fix into the
pattern).