Why publish a plate for an OTS approach?

On 05/27/07 15:37, Roy Smith wrote:
In article ,
(Paul Tomblin) wrote:

I'm just reading IFR Refresher, and it has a report on an accident that
happened after a King Air was cleared for an SDF approach at KSME.
According to the article, at the time the A/FD and NTAP listed the SDF as
"Out of Service (OTS) - Indefinitely", and had been for four years, but
the plate was still being published with no mention that the SDF was OTS.
Why the hell would they continue to publish an approach plate in a
situation like that?

There's probably less paperwork and red tape involved to just notam
something OTS than to get it revoked. "We don't have to make sense, we're
the FAA".

Hmmm, I wonder. When they pulled the NDB approach at KSAC (Sacramento
Executive), it just went away -no more plate.

Maybe they think the SDF approach mentioned by the OP may come back at
some point, so they don't want to completely remove it from the system?


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Mark Hansen, PP-ASEL, Instrument Airplane, USUA Ultralight Pilot
Cal Aggie Flying Farmers
Sacramento, CA