What do real piolots do when there are no published approach plates for a given runway at a major airport - example: I looked everywhere (including my new sim-plates cds) for approach plates for the following runways at KBOS (Boston):4L0915L22R33RWhat does a 737 jet pilot do in such cases? Since there don't seem to be published plates for these runways, how do you land a large jet? Same is true for RWY 29 at KEWR (Newark, N.J.).Do you just do it all the old fashioned visual way - i.e. - downwind-base-turning final, etc.?I would love to know how jet pilots do this. Or - am I mising something & there really ARE plates for these runways?Thanks!Chris Catalano

Just a guess, but those runways may be used only for departures. I did find GPS plates for the KBOS runways on myairplane.com .

Chris,The geography of some airports preclude instrument approaches being available to some runways. Nashville, rwy 20C is an example. Also, the expense of installing the ground based equipment is also considered when an airport is already served by a sufficent number of instrument approach runways. However, these non published runways are used actively for landing when the weather permits visual approaches (and for VFR arrivals). Also, with no need for ground based approach equipment installations (and the associated expense), GPS is making instrument approach procedures available for some runways that previously didn't have them. Roger

I checked myairplane.com for KBOS - it only had the same runways as I had on my sim-plates sofware. In fact, I didn't see any GPS plates for the other "missing" runways in the set. Therefore, I think perhaps it is true - maybe these runways are only used for visual approaches, or perhaps are not used at all for whatever reason. Thanks for the response.Chris Catalano