Time Outbound before making Procedure Turn
Asked by: Mouhcine Souabni 5904 views Instrument Rating
I've been working as a flight instructor at Phoenix East Aviation based in KDAB for 5 months now. And I have had a couple of questions when it comes to performing the procedure turn as it is depicted on the VOR17 KOMN.
Now on this Non-precision Terminal Approach I teach my students (assuming that we are flying the full approach) to Track the R341 outbound after passing the VOR(IAF) , for about 3 mins as a rule of thumb. before making the left turn to a heading of 296 for another 1 min. After that to make another Left turn to a heading of 116 to track the inbound course of 161.
On the profile view it says to Remain within 10NM of the primary NAVAID (OMN VOR) also as described on the AIM.
The issue is that sometimes that 3 mins doesn't allow for enough time to get established inbound after the procedure turn and to have adequate time to descend to the MDA. I'm thinking that a right turn to a heading of 116 on the procedure turn might fix that but interested to hear everyones opinion on this one?
Thanks in advance!
Mouhcine Souabni
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