Plain English Meaning

A way of finding and lining up with a runway in cloud or low visibility by following a signal from a VOR ground station. It tells you left and right, but not up and down, so you step the aircraft down through published altitudes until you either see the runway or fly the missed approach.

Full Definition

A non-precision instrument approach procedure that uses a VOR (VHF Omnidirectional Range) ground station as the primary navigation source to guide an aircraft from the environment down to a published near the destination runway. It provides lateral only, with no , and is flown by a specified inbound to or outbound from the VOR while observing published altitudes, , and the .