Title Page -- Preface - Signature -- Acknowledgments -- Notice -- Table of Contents -- Chapter 1 - Departure Procedures -- Introduction -- Surface Movement Safety -- Airport Sketches and Diagrams -- Airport Facility Directory (A/FD) -- Surface Movement Guidance Control System (SMGCS) -- Advanced Surface Movement Guidance Control System (A-SMGCS) -- Airport Signs, Lighting, and Markings -- Runway Incursions -- Runway Hotspots -- Standardized Taxi Routes -- Taxi and Movement Operations Change -- Weather and the Departure Environment -- Takeoff Minimums -- Takeoff Minimums for Commercial Operators -- Operations Specifications (OpSpecs) -- Ceiling and Visibility Requirements -- Visibility -- Prevailing Visibility -- Runway Visibility Value (RVV) -- Tower Visibility -- Runway Visual Range (RVR) -- Adequate Visual Reference -- Ceilings -- Automated Weather Systems -- Automatic Terminal Information Service (ATIS) -- Digital Automatic Terminal Information Service (D-ATIS) -- IFR Alternate Requirements -- Alternate Minimums for Commercial Operators -- Departure Procedures -- Design Criteria -- Low, Close-In Obstacles -- One-Engine-Inoperative (OEI) Takeoff Obstacle Clearance Requirements -- Categories of Departure Procedures -- Obstacle Departure Procedures (ODPs) -- ODP Flight Planning Considerations -- Standard Instrument Departures (SIDs) -- Transition Routes -- SID Flight Planning Considerations -- Area Navigation (RNAV) Departures -- SID Altitudes -- Pilot Responsibility for Use of RNAV Departures -- Radar Departures -- Diverse Vector Area -- Visual Climb Over Airport (VCOA) -- Noise Abatement Procedures -- Procedural Notes -- DP Responsibilities -- Departures From Tower-Controlled Airports -- Departures From Airports Without an Operating Control Tower -- Ground Communication Outlet -- See and Avoid Techniques -- VFR Departures.

Chapter 2 - En Route Operations -- Introduction -- En Route Navigation -- Airways -- Air Route Traffic Control Centers -- Safe Separation Standards -- Sectors -- In-flight Requirements and Instructions -- High Altitude Area Navigation Routing -- Preferred IFR Routes -- Substitute Airway or Route Structures -- Substitute Airway En Route Flight Procedures -- Tower En Route Control -- Tower En Route Control Route Descriptions -- Airway and Route System -- Airway/Route Depiction -- IFR En Route Low Altitude Chart -- IFR En Route High Altitude Chart -- VHF Airways -- Victor Airway Navigation Procedures -- LF/MF Airways -- En Route Obstacle Clearance Areas -- Primary and Secondary En Route Obstacle Clearance Areas -- Changeover Points -- Direct Route Flights -- Published RNAV Routes -- Composition of Designators -- Use of Designators in Communications -- Random RNAV Routes -- Off-Airway Routes -- Off-Route Obstruction Clearance Altitude -- Monitoring of Navigation Facilities -- Navigational Gaps -- NAVAID Accuracy Check -- VOR Accuracy -- VOT -- VOR Checkpoint Signs -- Dual VOR Check -- Airborne VOR Check -- NDB Accuracy Check -- RNAV Accuracy Check -- Waypoints -- User-Defined Waypoints -- Floating Waypoints -- Computer Navigation Performance -- Required Navigation Performance -- RNP Levels -- Standard RNP Levels -- Application of Standard RNP Levels -- IFR En Route Altitudes -- Minimum En Route Altitude (MEA) -- RNAV Minimum En Route Altitude -- Minimum Reception Altitude (MRA) -- Maximum Authorized Altitude (MAA) -- Minimum Obstruction Clearance Altitude (MOCA) -- Minimum Turning Altitude (MTA) -- Minimum Crossing Altitude (MCA) -- Minimum IFR Altitude (MIA) -- Minimum Vectoring Altitudes (MVA) -- IFR Cruising Altitude or Flight Level -- Reduced Vertical Separation Minimums (RSVM) -- Cruise Clearance -- Lowest Usable Flight Level.

Operations in Other Countries -- Altitude Above Ground (QFE) -- Barometric Pressure for Standard Altimeter Setting (QNE) -- Barometric Pressure for Local Altimeter Setting (QNH) -- En Route Reporting Procedures -- Non-Radar Position Reports -- Flights in a Radar Environment -- Position Report Items -- Additional Reports -- Communication Failure -- ARTCC Radio Frequency Outage -- Climbing and Descending En Route -- Aircraft Speed and Altitude -- En Route Holding Procedures -- ATC Holding Instructions -- Maximum Holding Speed -- High Performance Holding -- En Route Safety Considerations -- Fuel State Awareness -- Diversion Procedures -- Chapter 3 - Arrivals -- Introduction -- Navigation in the Arrival Environment -- Descent Planning -- Vertical Navigation (VNAV) Planning -- LNAV/VNAV Equipment -- Descent Planning for High Performance Aircraft -- Descending From the En Route Altitude -- Controlled Flight Into Terrain (CFIT) -- Standard Terminal Arrival Routes (STARs) -- RNAV STARs or STAR Transitions -- Interpreting the STAR -- STAR Procedures -- Preparing for the Arrival -- Reviewing the Approach -- Altitude -- Airspeed -- Holding Patterns -- Approach Clearance -- Present Position Direct -- Radar Vectors to Final Approach Course -- Special Airport Qualification -- Chapter 4 - Approaches -- Introduction -- Approach Planning -- Weather Considerations -- Weather Sources -- Broadcast Weather -- Automated Terminal Information Service (ATIS) -- Automated Weather Observing Programs -- Automated Weather Observing System -- Automated Surface Observing System (ASOS)/Automated Weather Sensor System (AWSS) -- Center Weather Advisories (CWA) -- Weather Regulatory Requirements -- Weather Requirements and Part 91 Operators -- Weather Requirements and Part 135 Operators -- Weather Requirements and Part 121 Operators -- Aircraft Performance Considerations.

Airplane Performance Operating Limitations -- Aircraft Approach Categories -- Instrument Approach Charts -- Approach Chart Naming Conventions -- Straight-In Procedures -- Circling Only Procedures -- Communications -- Approach Control -- Air Route Traffic Control Center (ARTCC) -- High or Lack of Minimum Vectoring Altitudes (MVAs) -- Lack of Approach Control Terrain Advisories -- Airports With an ATC Tower -- Airports Without A Control Tower -- Primary NAVAID -- Equipment Requirements -- Courses -- Traditional Courses -- Area Navigation Courses -- Altitudes -- Minimum Safe Altitude -- Final Approach Fix Altitude -- Minimum Descent Altitude (MDA), Decision Altitude (DA), And Decision Height (DH) -- Enhanced Flight Vision Systems (EFVS) and Instrument Approaches -- Vertical Navigation -- Wide Area Augmentation System -- Benefits Of WAAS In The Airport Environment -- Advantages Of WAAS Enabled LPV Approaches -- Ground-Based Augmentation System (GBAS) -- Required Navigation Performance (RNP) -- RNAV Approach Authorization -- Baro-VNAV -- Hot and Cold Temperature Limitations -- LNAV, LNAV/VNAV and Circling Minimums -- Airport/Runway Information -- Instrument Approach Procedure (IAP) Briefing -- Navigation and Communication Radios -- Flight Management System (FMS) -- Autopilot Modes -- Descents -- Stabilized Approach -- Descent Rates and Glidepaths for Nonprecision Approaches -- Maximum Acceptable Descent Rates -- Transition to a Visual Approach -- Missed Approach -- Example Approach Briefing -- Instrument Approach Procedure Segments -- Feeder Routes -- Terminal Routes -- DME Arcs -- Course Reversal -- Initial Approach Segment -- Intermediate Approach Segment -- Final Approach Segment -- Missed Approach Segment -- Approach Clearance -- Vectors To Final Approach Course -- Nonradar Environment -- Types of Approaches -- Visual and Contact Approaches.

Visual Approaches -- Contact Approaches -- Charted Visual Flight Procedures -- RNAV Approaches -- Terminal Arrival Areas -- RNAV Approach Types -- GPS Overlay of Nonprecision Approach -- GPS Stand-Alone/RNAV (GPS) Approach -- RNAV (GPS) Approach Using WAAS -- ILS Approaches -- ILS Approach Categories -- CAT II and III Approaches -- ILS Approaches To Parallel Runways -- Parallel (Dependent) ILS Approaches -- Simultaneous Parallel ILS Approaches -- Simultaneous Close Parallel ILS Precision Runway Monitor Approaches -- Simultaneous Offset Instrument Approaches (SOIAs) -- Converging ILS Approaches -- VOR Approach -- NDB Approach -- Radar Approaches -- Precision Approach Radar (PAR) -- Airport Surveillance Radar (ASR) -- Localizer Approaches -- Localizer and Localizer DME -- Localizer Back Course -- Localizer-Type Directional Aid (LDA) -- Simplified Directional Facility (SDF) -- Chapter 5 - Improvement Plans -- Introduction -- Next Generation Air Transportation (NextGen) System -- NextGen Existing Improvements -- Benefits of NextGen -- Head-Up Displays (HUD) -- Synthetic Vision System (SVS) -- Enhanced Flight Vision System (EFVS) -- Developing Combined Technology -- Electronic Flight Bag (EFB) -- Access to Special Use Airspace -- Civilians Using Special Use Airspace -- Chapter 6 - Airborne Navigation Databases -- Introduction -- Airborne Navigation Database Standardization -- ARINC 424 -- Fix Records -- Simple Route Records -- Complex Route Records -- Miscellaneous Records -- Path and Terminator Concept -- Path and Terminator Legs -- Path and Terminator Limitations -- Role of the Database Provider -- Role of the Avionics Manufacturer -- Users Role -- Operational Limitations of Airborne Navigation Databases -- Closed Indefinitely Airports -- Storage Limitations -- Charting/Database Inconsistencies -- Naming Conventions.

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