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INSTRUMENT APPROACH OPERATIONS
| INSTRUMENT APPROACH OPERATIONS | | An approach and landing using instruments for navigation guidance based on an instrument approach procedure. There are two methods for executing instrument approach operations: - A two-dimensional (2D) instrument approach operation, using lateral navigation guidance only; and
- A three-dimensional (3D) instrument approach operation, using both lateral and vertical navigation guidance.
Note: Lateral and vertical navigation guidance refers to the guidance provided either by: - a ground-based radio navigation aid; or
- computer-generated navigation data from ground-based, space-based, self-contained navigation aids or a combination of these
| | source: FAA Pilot/Controller Glossary |
| | A series of predetermined maneuvers for the orderly transfer of an aircraft under instrument flight conditions from the beginning of the initial approach to a landing or to a point from which a landing may be made visually. It is prescribed and approved for a specific airport by competent authority. (See SEGMENTS OF AN INSTRUMENT APPROACH PROCEDURE.) (Refer to 14 CFR Part 91.) (Refer to AIM.) - U.S. civil standard instrument approach procedures are approved by the FAA as prescribed under 14 CFR Part 97 and are available for public use.
- U.S. military standard instrument approach procedures are approved and published by the Department of Defense.
- Special instrument approach procedures are approved by the FAA for individual operators but are not published in 14 CFR Part 97 for public use.
A series of predetermined maneuvers by reference to flight instruments with specified protection from obstacles from the initial approach fix, or where applicable, from the beginning of a defined arrival route to a point from which a landing can be completed and thereafter, if a landing is not completed, to a position at which holding or en route obstacle clearance criteria apply. | | source: FAA Pilot/Controller Glossary |
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