Scenario: IFR 121 ops. You are departing an uncontrolled airport and cleared as filed without any specific instuctions (no SID, no heading assigned). The Jepps say that this airport has an obstacle departure procedure to climb runway heading to 3000ft before turing. The weather is VMC; clear skies 20 miles vis.
Do you have to fly runway heading to 3000 in this case even though it is VMC?
I say you have to fly the DP according to OPSPEC C077. The only way out of flying the DP in my opinion is if the say something like "VMC climb approved" or something like that in the clearance. Any thoughts?
Do you have to fly runway heading to 3000 in this case even though it is VMC?
I say you have to fly the DP according to OPSPEC C077. The only way out of flying the DP in my opinion is if the say something like "VMC climb approved" or something like that in the clearance. Any thoughts?