Purdue's VOR-A Still Wants You to Fly the Circle

Flying's latest Chart Wise installment takes up the VOR-A at Purdue University Airport in West Lafayette, Indiana. It is a ground-based, non-precision procedure, and because it carries a letter instead of a runway number, it ends in a circle-to-land rather than a straight-in. For owners who fly their own left seat and have grown used to the LPV minimums and the magenta line, that is a reminder that a VOR, a timed leg, and a circling maneuver have not disappeared from the system. The column walks through what the chart demands of a pilot who wants to get into KLAF that way.

With reporting from Flying.