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TwoTwoLeft said:
Speaking of useless... There once was this examiner who liked to ask private applicants if a student could get SVFR.... WHY???
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At work, special VFR operations are not authorized, so that's right out.

At home, there's only two airports (you can guess which ones, probably) I'd go SVFR into or out of. Same goes for a contact approach, and I'd have to be pretty hard up to want one of either operations.
 
JordanD said:
Inability to maintain minimum safe altitudes?
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Winner winner, chicken dinner!

If ceilings were, say 1,200 overcast with 6 miles visibility, it's legal VFR weather... but if its a congested area you cannot maintain the required 1,000 AGL while simultaneously maintaining 500' below clouds... just doesn't work!

Now then, 91.119 says "Except when necessary for takeoff or landing".... so you can still do it to fly into or out of a surface area if you'll be landing at the airport there, or even to do pattern work, since you're constantly in the act of taking off and landing... but you could not legally transit the surface area unless you were in the process of preparing to land.
 
Autothrust Blue said:
At work, special VFR operations are not authorized, so that's right out.

At home, there's only two airports (you can guess which ones, probably) I'd go SVFR into or out of. Same goes for a contact approach, and I'd have to be pretty hard up to want one of either operations.
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I use SVFR all the time getting in and out of OXR. When I need to go off shore and find things in the water when CIGs are below 1000ft, VFR on top is useless to me.
 
I've also got an answer from somebody while asking about A, they said they weren't sure if it was 3 or 5 miles visibility...
 
TwoTwoLeft said:
Speaking of useless... There once was this examiner who liked to ask private applicants if a student could get SVFR.... WHY???
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Hopefully it was a good applicant and the DPE was having a bit of fun since (a) it's irrelevant to a private pilot and (b) there is no good answer with a solid reference.

It was a question that came up in an online FIRC a few years ago. Gleim and I disagreed on the answer and discussed it. The ultimate explanation for Gleim's "correct" answer was that the FSDO that gave approval to the course wanted that answer.
 
TwoTwoLeft said:
I use SVFR all the time getting in and out of OXR. When I need to go off shore and find things in the water when CIGs are below 1000ft, VFR on top is useless to me.
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That's one of the two airports, because I know where all the things to hit are (very familiar).
 
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