Aircraft Operations. Volume II - Construction of Visual and Instrument ...

Foreword (xxi)
Amendment Source(s) Subject(s)
13
(Volume II,
1st Edition)
1
(Volume II,
2nd Edition)
Sixth Meeting of the
Obstacle Clearance Panel
(1978)
Seventh Meeting of the
Obstacle Clearance Panel
(1981)
2 Seventh Meeting of the
Obstacle Clearance Panel
(1981); Fourth Meeting of
the Operations Panel
(1981)
3 Seventh Meeting of the
Obstacle Clearance Panel
(1981)
4
(Volume II,
3rd Edition)
Recommendations
developed by the Obstacle
Clearance Panel through
correspondence and at its
eighth meeting and by the
Communications/
Operations Divisional
Meeting (COM/OPS/1985)
5 Obstacle Clearance Panel,
Fourth Meeting of the
Helicopter Operations
(HELIOPS) Panel, Air
Navigation Commission
6
(Volume II,
4th Edition)
NinthMeetingofthe
Obstacle Clearance Panel
(1990), Fifth Meeting of
the Operations Panel
(1989) and Amendment 69
to Annex 10.
Complete revision of material related to procedure
construction and obstacle clearance criteria for instrument
approach procedures. Editorial rearrangement of the PANS-
OPS into two volumes.
Modification and clarification of Part III and alignment of
presentation of units with Annex 5, Fourth Edition.
Changes to the holding criteria, e.g. introduction of
VOR/DME holding criteria and a new holding area
construction method in Part IV. Introduction of new Part V
for helicopter procedures.
Approved
Applicable
29 June 1979
25 November 1982
8 February 1982
25 November 1982
30 March 1983
24 November 1983
Introduction of criteria for departure procedures 25 November 1983
22 November 1984
Part III. — Introduction of a provision related to earliest
location of MAPt; deletion of TP defined by a distance
(timing); deletion of dz min between SOC and TP in
precision missed approach; amalgamation of provisions
related to the protection of holding and racetrack
procedures; refinement of ILS turning missed approach
criteria; introduction of MLS interim criteria for ILS-type
approaches; editorial amendments.
Part IV. — VOR TO/FROM indication error zone; holding
speeds; deletion of word “standard” in relation to holding;
editorial amendments.
Introduction of a new Chapter 5 related to simultaneous
operations on parallel or near-parallel instrument runways;
introduction in Part V of a new Chapter 2 — Procedures
Specified for Use by Helicopters Only; editorial
amendments.
Amendment of the definitions of minimum descent
altitude/height (MDA/H), obstacle clearance altitude/
height (OCA/H) and minimum sector altitude and inclusion
of the definitions of decision altitude/ height (DA/H), area
navigation (RNAV) and waypoint. Introduction in Part II of
a new Chapter 7 related to area navigation (RNAV)
departure procedures based on VOR/DME. Amendment to
Part II concerning departure criteria to include secondary
areas; clarify the application of the gradient criteria; include
the concept of close-in obstacles and deletion of the
acceleration segment. Amendment to Part III, Chapter 5 to
include a reference to the MLS in the text of the general
criteria for the intermediate approach segment. Amendment
to Part III, Chapter 7 related to missed approach segment.
Amendment to Part III, Chapter 9 related to minimum
sector altitudes. Amendment to Part III, Chapter 24 related
to the procedures based on tactical vectoring. Introduction
in Part III of a new Chapter 31 related to area navigation
(RNAV) approach procedures based on VOR/DME.
Amendment to Part III, Attachment C related to VOR/DME
entry procedures. Amendment to Part III, Attachment K
7 May 1986
20 November 1986
23 March 1990
15 November 1990
3 March 1993
11 November 1993
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