It's the end of a long day filled of uncooperative weather, ground stops, and a diversion tossed in to make it interesting. You're shooting the non-precision (ofcourse) GPS approach, and upon reaching minimums, you look up and see ... nothing. Wait a minute! Isn't that a PAPI glowing out of the left side of your win-dow? Is that your runway? If so, what's it doing all the way over there7.This was the experience that a reader shared with us about flying the GPS RWY 12R approach into the North Las Vegas airport (KVGT). (See Readback, "Not There, but Over There.)"It got us thinking about the sometimes overlooked value of briefing the sight picture that you should expect when breaking out of the clouds. When an approach is published with only circling minimums, we expect to look around for the runway. On a straight-in approach, the effect of aircraft orientation relative to the runway can be a little more subtle-and a lot more disorienting.
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机译：这是漫长的一天的结束，充满了不合作的天气，地面停了下来，并进行了分流使它变得有趣。您正在拍摄非精确的（of r ncourse）GPS方法，并且在达到最小值时，您抬起头来却没有看到任何东西。等一下！这不是PAPI在win- r ndow的左侧发光吗？那是你的跑道吗？如果是这样，那到底是怎么回事7。 r n这是读者与我们分享的有关将GPS RWY 12R进近北拉斯维加斯机场（KVGT）的经验。 （请参阅回读，“不在那儿，但在那儿。”） r n这使我们考虑到有时简明扼要地介绍视线影像的价值，这是您从云层中飞出时应该期望的。当发布的方法仅具有最小的盘旋最小值时，我们希望环顾四周。在直接进场中，飞机相对于跑道的定向影响可能会更加微妙，并且会造成更多的混乱。
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