Juliet Lima
New Member
to me terminal capability includes approach and tower. so an RNAV approach will be confined within the approach and/or tower airspace. so if /G deals with en route and terminal capability, what is terminal capability?? is it not the ability to excute an approach to an airport.
i.e. if ur /G u should be able to do any approach
if ur /A u should be able to do ILS, VOR, NDB, etc
if ur /P u should be able to do a TACAN
so back to my question, if an aircraft files /G why can't they do an RNAV approach. the only reason I ask is because our runway that contains the ILS, VOR, LOC BC, NDB was closed. our small runway was still open with a Visual Approach or RNAV approach being the only option. Horizon said they couldn't accept the RNAV and would have to divert if they couldn't do the visual. in fact, they even said they may be restricted from even coming in if there is no alternate approach available other than the visual. what gives??
i.e. if ur /G u should be able to do any approach
if ur /A u should be able to do ILS, VOR, NDB, etc
if ur /P u should be able to do a TACAN
so back to my question, if an aircraft files /G why can't they do an RNAV approach. the only reason I ask is because our runway that contains the ILS, VOR, LOC BC, NDB was closed. our small runway was still open with a Visual Approach or RNAV approach being the only option. Horizon said they couldn't accept the RNAV and would have to divert if they couldn't do the visual. in fact, they even said they may be restricted from even coming in if there is no alternate approach available other than the visual. what gives??