A reporter advised the commercially provided IAP chart for the localizer 27 at san does not include ...

Narrative:

Safety concern: there is an enforceable; safety related discrepancy between instrument approach procedure (IAP) 'notes' on company issued commercially provided san LOC27 and the same FAA/nga procedure. FAA/nga LOC27 contains the restriction: 'when runway 27 vgsi inoperative; straight-in and circling minimums na at night.' the current commercial IAP does not contain this restriction. Omission of this note may lead planners/dispatchers/pilots to think that without operative papis; they are legal to fly the localizer approach. Omission of the note also removes a critical warning flag to pilots; which indicates that there is unlit; adverse terrain or unlit obstacles penetrating a 20:1 plane in the visual segment of the approach. Collectively; these two consequences of the note omission means that if a pilot tries to fly the approach without operative vgsi; he/she is exposed to more risk by removing the one and only visual aid used to ensure avoiding/clearing obstacles that may not be seen during darkness.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: A reporter advised the commercially provided IAP chart for the LOC 27 at SAN does not include the restriction against use of the Straight-in and Circling minima at night when the VGSI (PAPI) is out of service which is published on the government produced chart.

Narrative: Safety Concern: There is an enforceable; safety related discrepancy between instrument approach procedure (IAP) 'Notes' on company issued commercially provided SAN LOC27 and the same FAA/NGA procedure. FAA/NGA LOC27 contains the restriction: 'When Runway 27 VGSI inoperative; Straight-in and Circling minimums NA at night.' The current commercial IAP does not contain this restriction. Omission of this note may lead planners/dispatchers/pilots to think that without operative PAPIs; they are legal to fly the localizer approach. Omission of the note also removes a critical warning flag to pilots; which indicates that there is unlit; adverse terrain or unlit obstacles penetrating a 20:1 plane in the visual segment of the approach. Collectively; these two consequences of the note omission means that if a pilot tries to fly the approach without operative VGSI; he/she is exposed to more risk by removing the one and only visual aid used to ensure avoiding/clearing obstacles that may not be seen during darkness.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.

Attributes
ACN	1153566
Time
Date	201402
Local Time Of Day	1201-1800
Place
Locale Reference	SAN.Airport
State Reference	CA
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Light	Night
Person 1
Function	Pilot Not Flying
Events
Anomaly	Other Unwanted Situation

A reporter advised the commercially provided IAP chart for the localizer 27 at san does not include the restriction against use of the straight-in and circling minima at night when the vgsi (PAPI) is out of service which is published on the government produced chart.