"Sam Spade" wrote in message
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Stan Prevost wrote:
"Sam Spade" wrote in message
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Wouldn't folks normally use RNAV instead of VOR? (unlike ILS where you
are required to use the actual LOC and G/S)


Probably, when there is a suitable RNAV approach available.

If there isn't a suitable RNAV approach available, then the VOR approach
should be "...or GPS."

"Suitable".

Take my home field, for example. There used to be only a VOR/DME or GPS
cirling approach. Then the first RNAV straight-in approach went in and the
"or GPS" came off the other approach, as you say.

That RNAV approach comes in from the north, the VOR/DME comes in from the
west. Which one is most suitable depends on my direction of arrival. I'm
not going to fly 30 or more miles out of my way just to use the RNAV
approach, unless there is an advantage given the weather, making it more
suitable.

That's how I was using "suitable".