Definition
An official FAA publication, issued in regional volumes on a 56-day cycle, containing instrument approach procedure charts, departure procedures, standard terminal arrivals, and airport diagrams for civil and joint-use airports in the United States.
Plain English
A regularly updated FAA booklet, organized by region, that contains the charts pilots use to fly instrument approaches, departures, and arrivals at U.S. airports.
Context Anchor
Seen when checking current instrument procedure charts, airport diagrams, and airport status notes before or during flight planning.
Derivation
"Terminal" here refers to the airport environment — the area where flights begin or end — not a passenger terminal building. "Procedures" refers to the published instrument flight steps for getting in or out of that environment.
Why Pilots Care
It supplies the precise, legally required charts and instructions needed to conduct safe instrument approaches and departures.
Intuition Check
Terminal does not mean the passenger building here. It means the airport-area part of flight, where arrivals, departures, approaches, and airport-specific procedures are used.
Example Sentence 1
Before the flight, she pulled up the current Terminal Procedures Publication to brief the ILS approach into her destination.
Example Sentence 2
After the airport closed indefinitely, its procedures were withdrawn from the United States Terminal Procedures Publication.