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TERPS · Instrument Flight Procedures

Open your airport to more weather, more aircraft, more days.

We design the instrument flight procedures that lower your minimums and expand all-weather access — from feasibility through FAA coordination, flight inspection, and lifecycle maintenance.

Airspace & ATC expertise from a 14-year Control Tower Supervisor
The opportunity

An instrument approach changes what your airport is worth.

A modern RNAV (GPS) approach — especially one with vertical guidance (LPV) — can dramatically lower your landing minimums, turning weather cancellations into completed flights. That means more based aircraft, more business traffic, and a stronger case for investment. But getting one approved is a complex, multi-year, multidisciplinary effort through the FAA. We manage it end to end.

~200 ft
LPV approaches can bring minimums down toward Cat I ILS levels — without ground navaids
33,000+
Instrument procedures in the U.S. NAS; roughly half are GPS/RNAV-based
~2 yrs
Typical FAA development timeline — which disciplined coordination helps compress
Services

A tiered path from "is it possible?" to "it's published."

Start with a feasibility study, commission individual procedures, or hand us the whole program. Indicative pricing shown — every airport is scoped individually.

How it works

Five stages, fully managed.

Stage 1

Feasibility

Obstacle & airspace study; what minimums are achievable.

Stage 2

Design

Procedure built to TERPS / PBN criteria for your fleet.

Stage 3

FAA Coordination

Submission and coordination through the IFP Gateway.

Stage 4

Flight Inspection

Validation flight-testing of the procedure.

Stage 5

Publish & Maintain

Publication, then periodic review & amendments.

Why Us

We already speak the FAA's language.

Instrument procedures don't live on paper — they live in busy airspace, alongside live traffic and the controllers who work it. Our founder spent 14 years as a Control Tower Supervisor, with a career of air traffic control management behind it, so procedure concepts are evaluated the way ATC and the FAA will actually see them.

That perspective shapes everything from how a feasibility study frames the airspace to how a design coordinates with the controlling facility — keeping your project moving and your minimums as low as the obstacle environment allows.

What we bring

  • Airspace & ATC coordination fluency
  • Tower / terminal procedures background
  • Movement-area & obstacle awareness
  • FAA IFP Gateway process navigation
  • End-to-end project management
Service area

Working with airports across four regions.

Feasibility, design, and coordination support wherever you operate. Procedure criteria and approval pathways are scoped to the governing authority for your location.

North America Central & South America Europe Far East
Get started

Start with a feasibility study.

Tell us your airport, your current minimums, and the operations you want to enable. We'll tell you what's achievable and what it takes to get there.

Prefer to reach out directly?

Dave@airfieldairspacesafety.com

We reply within one business day.