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I am arriving from the west over RELAE for the procedure turn. When can I descend to 13,100?

SNOWL is where the procedure turn begins. It is the anchor for the entry zone and maneuvering zone. The following is a segment of an IAP that has a standard PT:

Pilots flew procedure turns for many, many years without DME or GPS. It's called "Rate-Time-Distance" navigation.

It's been a very long time since I last flew it. Having said that the VOR is about 1,000 feet higher than El Monte Airport. My hunch: form completion rather than flight inspection.

It is the primary IAP for the airport. Most airplanes these days would have the MAP CNF. If not, but they have DME, my recollection is that you don't lose DME until well below MDA.

Jepp shows D12.2 at the MAP. But, source doesn't support that.

DME is optional at KEMT VOR-A. Always has been this way since 1970, or do.

There is nothing as good as a ground plane antenna mounted on a mast atop the roof. The antenna should be cut by a pro to the proper fraction of the optimum wave length. In the 1969-79 time-frame I lived near the foothills of the LA basin. I could hear LA County Sheriff units 40 miles away...

The difficult part of an IAP is nearing a standard DA or MDA inside clouds. Just sayin'

This is as loose as a goose: The FAA does not require the ceiling to be at MDA or DA/DH during a flight in IMC.

It's also know as The Least Cost of Being Wrong doctrine.

Do you have references?

The controller asked which IAP he wanted. Seems to me the controller was only going to protect that missed approach. This is quite different than your example at KSAN.

You've lost me. At the OP's airport, the missed approach procedures are very different.

All three of those SAN IAPs have the same missed approach. Not so, for the OP's airport.

Link?

There was a time when the VDP was mandatory for Part 121.

All radio navigation is great circles. That's the nature of RF. It's course, not heading.

Not usually unless someone sends them a copy of the death certificate. My first FBO boss is still in there. He died probably 30 years ago.

During my active airline time we could cancel with 35 miles of the destination airport provided weather was severe VFR. Never did it, though.