Definition
Grand Junction Regional Airport (KGJT) is a public airport in Grand Junction, Colorado, used in the Instrument Procedures Handbook as an example airport when illustrating RNAV path and terminator leg types on a published instrument procedure.
Plain English
An airport in Colorado that the FAA handbook uses as a real-world example to show how certain RNAV procedure legs work.
Context Anchor
Seen on instrument procedure charts, procedure examples, and FAA training material that uses a real airport to show how a flight path is built.
Derivation
“Grand Junction” is the name of the Colorado city, historically named for the meeting point of major rivers in the area. “Regional” is part of the airport’s official name and suggests the airport serves the surrounding area, not just the city itself.
Why Pilots Care
A pilot must recognize this as a specific airport name so they do not mistake it for an instruction, a route segment, or a general category of airport.
Intuition Check
Do not read “Regional” as a procedure term here. In this context, “Grand Junction Regional” is simply the name of a specific airport.
Example Sentence 1
The handbook uses Grand Junction Regional to show how a course-to-fix leg connects two waypoints on an RNAV approach.
Example Sentence 2
Confirm the arrival routing ends at Grand Junction Regional before loading the approach.