A pilot reported confusion regarding the commercial plan view graphics on all runway 34 and 35 ILS/l...

Narrative:

On a recent flight into xna; while examining the latest revision of the commercial approach plates for the airport; we noticed that all of the overhead views for the approaches into xna show the approach terminating at (the new but still closed as of early june) runway 17/35. This was a source of confusion in the cockpit for a few minutes; because we had both been into xna recently and neither of us recalled runway 17/35 being open yet. There was nothing on the ASOS broadcast; which normally contains notams; about 17/35 being closed; although once we were in visual range of the airport we could see the large temporary X signs on the runway. I don't recall whether any notams pertaining to the runway closure were in the dispatch release or not.(the fact that someone somewhere decided to open a new; parallel runway on the west side of xna and *not* designate it runway 16R/34L is pure idiocy in itself; and the controllers down there seem to agree.) the commercial chart manufacturer needs to fix their approach diagrams so that the runway 16/34 approaches terminate at the correct (eastern) runway; and the authority responsible for naming runways needs to follow standard naming conventions for parallel runways as soon as possible.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: A pilot reported confusion regarding the commercial plan view graphics on all Runway 34 and 35 ILS/LOC and RNAV approach plates that terminate at Runway 35. Likewise all south ILS/LOC and RNAV approaches terminate at Runway 17. Runway 17/35 is a new; as yet unopened runway.

Narrative: On a recent flight into XNA; while examining the latest revision of the commercial approach plates for the airport; we noticed that all of the overhead views for the approaches into XNA show the approach terminating at (the new but still closed as of early June) Runway 17/35. This was a source of confusion in the cockpit for a few minutes; because we had both been into XNA recently and neither of us recalled Runway 17/35 being open yet. There was nothing on the ASOS broadcast; which normally contains NOTAMs; about 17/35 being closed; although once we were in visual range of the airport we could see the large temporary X signs on the runway. I don't recall whether any NOTAMs pertaining to the runway closure were in the dispatch release or not.(The fact that someone somewhere decided to open a new; parallel runway on the west side of XNA and *not* designate it Runway 16R/34L is pure idiocy in itself; and the controllers down there seem to agree.) The commercial chart manufacturer needs to fix their approach diagrams so that the Runway 16/34 approaches terminate at the correct (eastern) runway; and the authority responsible for naming runways needs to follow standard naming conventions for parallel runways as soon as possible.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site as of April 2012 and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.

Attributes
ACN	957415
Time
Date	201106
Local Time Of Day	1201-1800
Place
Locale Reference	XNA.TRACON
State Reference	AR
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Light	Daylight
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Medium Transport Low Wing 2 Turbojet Eng
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	Descent
Route In Use	Direct
Flight Plan	IFR
Person 1
Function	Pilot Not Flying First Officer
Qualification	Flight Crew Multiengine Flight Crew Instrument Flight Crew Flight Instructor Flight Crew Commercial
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 180 Flight Crew Total 4300 Flight Crew Type 2570
Events
Anomaly	Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy

A pilot reported confusion regarding the commercial plan view graphics on all runway 34 and 35 ILS/localizer and RNAV approach plates that terminate at runway 35. Likewise all south ILS/localizer and RNAV approaches terminate at runway 17. Runway 17/35 is a new; as yet unopened runway.