Chapter 7
Helicopter Instrument Procedures
IFR Heliports
AC 150/5390-2, Heliport Design, provides recommendations for heliport design to support non-precision, approach with vertical guidance (APV), and precision approaches to a heliport. When a heliport does not meet the criteria of AC 150/5390-2, FAA Order 8260.42, United States Standard for Helicopter Area Navigation (RNAV), requires that an instrument approach be published as a Special procedure with annotations that special aircrew qualifications are required to fly the procedure. Currently, there are no operational civil IFR heliports in the U.S., although the U.S. military has some non-precision and precision approach procedures to IFR heliports.