Airports
Santa Monica Airport Gets Three New IFR Approaches
Three new instrument approaches will soon be available for both runways at California's Santa Monica Airport.

On April 27, pilots will be able to fly three new RNAV approaches to embattled Santa Monica Airport (SMO) in Southern California, including two to Runway 3 and and an LPV approach to Runway 21. The new approaches supplement the long-time VOR circling approach to SMO, which was not approved for use at night and has a minimum descent altitude of 860 feet msl (field elevation is 177 feet). The new RNAV (GPS) Rwy 21 approach allows a straight-in descent to minimums as low as 447 feet msl (LPV) or 567 feet LNAV/VNAV, which should help alleviate problems getting into the airport when marine layer fog covers the airport. 

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