Traditional non-precision instrument approaches involved a high-workload "chop and drive" method of rapidly descending to the Minimum Descent Altitude (MDA), leveling off, and then searching for the ...

The two privately funded precision instrument approach procedures at Monmouth Executive Airport have lower minimums than the non-precision approaches that were originally approved for the airport.

The FAA has rapidly implemented thousands of WAAS-enabled GPS approaches (LNAV, VNAV, LPV) that provide ILS-like vertical guidance, promoting more stable, constant-angle descents. While constant-angle ...