Recent content by OC59

Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you're proposing? There are tons of depicted racetrack HILPTs -- I think pretty much every RNAV with a PT is now depicted this way, though I might be wrong about that. But I see them on approaches all the time. And they do not have to be flown as depicted.

I'm a little puzzled by the sentence at the end "These turns must be flown exactly as depicted." I'm relatively new (2yrs) to IFR, and I've been treating the HILPT as just another PT, except that the fix is specified (as opposed to the barb where it's up to the pilot to choose where to turn). So...

The OB podcast guys had a discussion about this (can't remember the episode). The gist was what RingLaser said - ATC needs to know what sector you're going to go into so they can hand you off properly. I don't give waypoints because they mostly don't care, but I do give landmarks or general...

Quotes from the OP: "We have a commercial tour operator who has been allegedly turning off his ADS-B for his flights. ... Others think they are doing it to avoid being blamed for noise complaints (they do not abide by the 'fly friendly' agreement that other tour operators agreed to follow)."...

midwestpa24, it was pretty recent. Search for www.boldmethod.com/learn-to-fly/regulations/how-to-fly-go-arounds-from-visual-approaches-atc-contact/ (I'm too junior to post a link per the site rules).

I know this is an old post, but since I stumbled on the thread while searching around on exactly this issue, I want to chime in about whether the GI275 restriction is regulatory. I believe that as of August 2017, that regulation no longer exists. If you look for it on an official .gov website...