You’ve lined up on the 7000 ft runway and can see the tree line past the other end of the runway at an uncontrolled field. AWOS is calling it a 1/2 mile.
What to do......what to do.....?
You need a mile to depart. You have a mile for realz, but the awos (installed somewhere else on the field, or whaky) is reporting less than a mile.What do your opspecs say? Do you have C057 and what’s the lowest straight in category I approach mind to that airport. That’s the first question. We need more context first.
I think you already know the answer. In 135 we’re bound in most cases by official reports and observations regardless of what reality may be. With an untowered airport your bag of tricks is a lot shallower too. I assume no RVR either?You need a mile to depart. You have a mile for realz, but the awos (installed somewhere else on the field, or whaky) is reporting less than a mile.
Report the visibility sensor unreliable and depart VFR based on your own observation.Taxi back, shut down, call FSS.
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Except in this scenario, it is obviously IFR, just that the reported weather is significantly worse than the reality.Report the visibility sensor unreliable and depart VFR based on your own observation.
I should have had the sarcasm tag. Though I’m sure that’s happened.Except in this scenario, it is obviously IFR, just that the reported weather is significantly worse than the reality.
Uh...under 135 prevailing flight visibility only matters when you break out on an approach. Everything else I can think of you’re bound by the official reports/forecasts.Whats that term.. prevailing flight visibility?
I should have had the sarcasm tag. Though I’m sure that’s happened.
Skagway, when they’re sweeping the runway in spring and dust get into the vis sensor...I've done it when it's fog. Clear and a million but the AWOS is calling 3/4 mile because it sits in a bowl? That's exactly what VFR is for.
Now I've seen people do it the other way - calling M1/4 and fog and they call the AWOS and give an erroneous report and blast anyway under VFR - that's bad. <rolls up newspaper>NO!
Probably right. Break the AWOS and make your own call.Uh...under 135 prevailing flight visibility only matters when you break out on an approach. Everything else I can think of you’re bound by the official reports/forecasts.
Shot yourself in the foot, can’t leave under 135 with a busted AWOS.Probably right. Break the AWOS and make your own call.
Pretty sure we have something in the ops specs for no weather reporting. Haven't looked in a while.Shot yourself in the foot, can’t leave under 135 with a busted AWOS.
Pretty sure we have something in the ops specs for no weather reporting. Haven't looked in a while.Shot yourself in the foot, can’t leave under 135 with a busted AWOS.
Ah yeah, that would do it. I’ve only done single pilot so I forget that EOD is a thing and what it can do.Eligible on-demand with an SIC that meets the requirements?
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