Plain English Meaning

An approach where the controller watches you on radar and tells you what headings to fly so you line up with the runway. The controller does not give you vertical guidance down a glide path -- you fly the published step-down altitudes yourself.

Full Definition

A non-precision instrument approach in which an air traffic controller, watching the aircraft on Airport Surveillance Radar, provides verbal heading instructions to guide the pilot to the runway. The controller issues headings to keep the aircraft aligned with the final approach course and advises when to begin descent, when the aircraft reaches the missed approach point, and (on request) during descent. Because provides only , no is involved.