PAs and APVs are flown to a decision height/altitude (DH/DA), while non-precision approaches are flown to a minimum descent altitude (MDA). These approaches include VOR, NDB, LP (Localizer Performance), and LNAV. A non-precision approach uses a navigation system for course deviation but does not provide glidepath information. Examples include baro-VNAV, localizer type directional aid (LDA) with glidepath, LNAV/VNAV and LPV. An approach with vertical guidance also uses a navigation system for course and glidepath deviation, just not to the same standards as a PA. Examples include precision approach radar (PAR), instrument landing system (ILS), and GBAS landing system (GLS). A precision approach uses a navigation system that provides course and glidepath guidance. There are three categories of instrument approach procedures: precision approach (PA), approach with vertical guidance (APV), and non-precision approach (NPA). The ICAO defines an instrument approach as, "a series of predetermined maneuvers by reference to flight instruments with specific protection from obstacles from the initial approach fix, or where applicable, from the beginning of a defined arrival route to a point from which a landing can be completed and thereafter, if landing is not completed, to a position at which holding or en route obstacle clearance criteria apply." These approaches are approved in the European Union by EASA and the respective country authorities and in the United States by the FAA or the United States Department of Defense for the military. In aviation, an instrument approach or instrument approach procedure ( IAP) is a series of predetermined maneuvers for the orderly transfer of an aircraft operating under instrument flight rules from the beginning of the initial approach to a landing, or to a point from which a landing may be made visually. An " approach plate" depicting an instrument approach procedure for an ILS approach to Tacoma Narrows Airport in the United States
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