{"id":126,"date":"2013-06-10T13:35:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-10T13:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aircrewacademy.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/10\/beechjet-category-c\/"},"modified":"2019-01-03T17:18:55","modified_gmt":"2019-01-03T17:18:55","slug":"beechjet-category-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aircrewacademy.com\/blog\/beechjet-category-c\/","title":{"rendered":"No more instrument approaches into Telluride, CO (KTEX) for the Beechjet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The V<sub>REF<\/sub> \/ V<sub>SO<\/sub> speed did not change for the Beechjet, so why change the approach category?\u00a0 The FSB said because of the limitation to fly at Ref +5 for a coupled approach they determined that should move the aircraft to be in approach category C. The coupled approach speed limitation is not new either. So why after 25 years of operating safely in category B for straight in approaches should a paperwork review drive a revision to the FSB report limiting the minimums, and in some cases airports, that can be used? What is even more silly is if I hand-fly the aircraft where this Ref +5 limitation does not apply, I am still stuck with being a category C aircraft for instrument approaches.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Can we sequester the publication of this revision to the FSB report?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FAA Flight Standardization Board (FSB) issued a revision to their report on the Beechjet family of aircraft on March 6th, 2013. One of the changes was \u201cadded clarification to 3.1.3 Landing Minima Categories.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The clarification was the landing minima category for the MU-300, BE-400 and BE-400A aircraft is now category \u201cC\u201d for normal straight in approaches (Flaps 30). This is a change from the aircraft being category \u201cB.\u201d {phocadownload view=file|id=7|target=s}<\/p>\n<p>Since Telluride, CO (KTEX) only has instrument approaches with Category A and B minimums, a pilot flying the Beechjet could not accept a clearance for the instrument approach. You could accept a visual approach, just not an instrument approach that only has Category A and B minimums published.<\/p>\n<p>Aircraft are placed into an approach category when they are certified by using V<sub>REF<\/sub> or V<sub>SO<\/sub> times 1.3 at the maximum certificated landing weight. For more information on aircraft approach categories see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.faa.gov\/other_visit\/aviation_industry\/airline_operators\/airline_safety\/safo\/all_safos\/media\/2012\/SAFO12005.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">FAA Safety Alert for Operators (SAFO) 12005<\/a>. For more information on approach categories Advanced Aircrew Academy has a refresher course on<a href=\"index.php\/instrument-procedures\"> Instrument Procedures<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[34,35,36,37,38,39],"class_list":["post-126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-beechjet-training","tag-category-c-minimums","tag-co","tag-faa-safo-12005","tag-instrument-approaches-telluride","tag-instrument-procedures-training"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aircrewacademy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aircrewacademy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aircrewacademy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aircrewacademy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aircrewacademy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.aircrewacademy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aircrewacademy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aircrewacademy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aircrewacademy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}