Flight Procedure Standards Branch

Current Regulations

Number	Title	Effective Date
AC 90-80B	Approval of Offshore Standard Approach Procedures (OASP), Airborne Radar Approaches (ARA), and Helicopter En Route Descent Areas (HEDA)	04/12/92
AC 90-111	Guidance for the Validation of Software Tools Used in the Development of Instrument Flight Procedures by Third Party Developers	06/22/11

Number	Title	Effective Date

Number	Title	Effective Date
7130.3A	Holding Pattern Criteria	03/18/98
7910.5C	Aeronautical Charting Forum	09/14/12
8260.3B CHG 1-25	United States Standard for Terminal Instrument Procedures (TERPS) (Consolidated version with all current changes)	03/09/12
8260.4	ILS Obstacle Risk Analysis	11/25/86
8260.15E	United States Army Terminal Instrument Procedures Service	02/02/07
8260.16	Airport Obstruction Surveys	07/25/69
8260.19E CHG 1-3	Flight Procedures and Airspace (Consolidated version with all current changes)	02/22/13
8260.23	Calculation of Radio Altimeter Height	07/09/71
8260.26E CHG 1	Establishing and Scheduling Civil Public-Use Standard Instrument Procedure Effective Dates	01/06/12
8260.32E	U.S. Air Force Terminal Instrument Procedures Service	09/02/11
8260.42B CHG 1	United States Standard for Helicopter Area Navigation (RNAV)	11/20/12
8260.46D CHG 3	Departure Procedures (DP) Program	12/31/12
8260.49A CHG 1	Simultaneous Offset Instrument Approach (SOIA)	11/09/12
8260.53	Standard Instrument Departures That Use RADAR Vectors To Join RNAV Routes	07/25/05
8260.56	Diverse Vector Area (DVA) Evaluation	08/02/11
8260.58 8260.58 (Print only) (PDF) Memo (PDF)	United States Standard for Performance Based Navigation (PBN) Instrument Procedure Design Order 8260.58 Policy Clarification Memorandum, dated 03/01/2013	09/21/12
8260.59	United States-Instrument Flight Procedures Panel (US-IFPP)	01/28/13