Autothrust Blue
“If you jump on my shift, that’s just rude, man.”
The star field off the coast was just incredible the past few nights, not gonna lie.
(from FL 240, anyway.)
(from FL 240, anyway.)
LAX visual.... really?
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Ain't that the truth. I had one company I used to work for who wouldn't let us go down their at nigh single pilot. And if we were going during the day in bad weather we had to get approval from the DO.
Mexican ATC;"No-bember 12345, left turn 220, descend four-tousand."
Me; "Err, umm, that's going to put me in the mountain."
ATC;"No-bember 12345, left turn 220, descend four-tousand! Correction, right turn 220, IC final app course, cleard for NDB runawy 37 approach"
Me; "Sheesh, he was about to turn us into the granite! He must have had his afternoon break."
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See that's why I want an STC to install a rack of those big flood lights you see on rigs up in Alaska that they used to see black moose at night on back roads.... just flip the switch and light up everything within a few miles of my airplane and see those rocks pop out, do a little night-time profile flying. I imagine the reports of UFO's would go through the roof though.
Autothrust Blue
“If you jump on my shift, that’s just rude, man.”
You can very quickly become IMC with not a cloud in the sky out there.
Welcome to summer days in the Ohio Valley. Bleh.
Autothrust Blue
“If you jump on my shift, that’s just rude, man.”
Bakersfield was like that yesterday. 2 miles haze, sky clear (gross).
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Last summer we were like that in wildfire smoke, not a cloud in the sky but down to 1-3 miles in smoke for a couple weeks.
The creepiest though is when its unrestricted visibility but either a high overcast or just a small moon night and there's not enough light to see the mountains even though theres nothing obscuring them...creepy!
It's always weird when arriving into a populated area, because you can see how a mountain ridge between you and the town is covering part of the towns lights, and slowly revealing more and more... even though you might have several thousand feet over that mountain it's still creepy to know there's a giant rock there that you can only detect because of the distant lights that it's blocking. You cannot "see" the mountain, only the lack of anything discernible in that space... like a black hole, an airplane eating black hole!
The creepiest though is when its unrestricted visibility but either a high overcast or just a small moon night and there's not enough light to see the mountains even though theres nothing obscuring them...creepy!
It's always weird when arriving into a populated area, because you can see how a mountain ridge between you and the town is covering part of the towns lights, and slowly revealing more and more... even though you might have several thousand feet over that mountain it's still creepy to know there's a giant rock there that you can only detect because of the distant lights that it's blocking. You cannot "see" the mountain, only the lack of anything discernible in that space... like a black hole, an airplane eating black hole!
Autothrust Blue
“If you jump on my shift, that’s just rude, man.”
TAWS/EGPWS is pretty nifty...and I stick to published terminal routes as much as possible at night.
z987k
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And it's not smog or haze, it's just that black.
z987k
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Except it's really hard to fly the IAP when there isn't one. Trust me, I'm IFR 100% of the time that I can be.
SeanD
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Bad idea.
Bahhhhh, hahaha. What the hell was he trying to do?
VFR direct everywhere I can. IFR when I need to be(which is still quite frequent). No sense in wasting time(I don't really need the hours anymore in what I fly now), and dangit, I just want to get back on the ground so I can pee!
z987k
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At 300 kts, I could care less about an extra 20 miles. Besides, I go direct everywhere under IFR anyways.
///AMG
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Even with 95 kts at my back, it was a long 2000+ miles home from Fallon on Friday. Luckily I had a delicious fresh breakfast burrito to nom nom on from our first gas stop at ABQ. Almost busted out the piddle pack in my helmet bag, but ended up just occupying myself with other things to distract me from the imminent urination. Love ATC though.......Fallon direct ABQ.....ABQ direct FSM.....FSM direct NTU. Which is good, because when they give me GPS waypoints, I just fly straight until they give up and provide me a vector......if it aint on the chart, I don't have it, and you should see me try to break out the chart in flight.......looks like a circus act. Yay 200 programmable GPS waypoints on a transcontinental flight 
TUCKnTRUCK
That guy
Errr? Visual approach, not VFR.... Airport or preceding
genot
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3 miles and 500 above MVA is the legal minimum for vectoring for the visual. 3 miles and 1,000 AGL is the legal limit for issuing a visual. Below that its a contact approach.
genot
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Its truly amazing what changes within a couple of miles or minutes, isolated area, or from crew to crew. We don't really have much to go on other than the last guy saw the field, so the next likely will. Just today I had an ATIS of 5 miles in haze, but visuals are working nicely. I get a pilot call the field 30 miles out, ok great! Pilot 7 miles in trail of them gets the do you see the airport spiel 10 miles out, his reply was one of shock that I'd think he'd ever be able to see the airport. He didn't see it 7 out so it was an ILS for him.
Apophis
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Yes, I'm pretty sure I know the difference, thanks for that. Reference @genot's post. You cannot be issued a visual approach when visibility is less than 3 miles. You must remain clear of clouds as well.