departing in ifr conditions at uncontrolled airport

adreamer said:
If ODP and SID are not available, I would try something different here. This is just my person idea - fly reverse approach. I will be looking the approach plates for a particular airport. After studying that, I woulf fly opposite direction of approach to avoid obstacles.

Just my 0.02 :)
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I suppose that would work. I'd probably try to climb in a circle over the field, if I knew there were obstacles in the area. Its awfully tough to have mountains and towers directly over the field.
 
KSCessnaDriver said:
I suppose that would work. I'd probably try to climb in a circle over the field, if I knew there were obstacles in the area. Its awfully tough to have mountains and towers directly over the field.
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Not a bad idea. I have in the absence of an ODP or SID, at an unfamiliar airport flown the missed approach off of whatever approach i used to get in, but this is only a very last resort.
 
29.92inHg said:
Not a bad idea. I have in the absence of an ODP or SID, at an unfamiliar airport flown the missed approach off of whatever approach i used to get in, but this is only a very last resort.
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I believe the missed approach assumes you leave the missed approach point at minimums. So, if it involved an immediate turn, you could end up hitting something, even though you thought that you had clearance.
 
jhugz said:
Every time you post something on this site you should think in the back of your mind what is the worse thing that could happen if a student pilot googles a question and comes up with this thread.
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Dude, you are way off base here. The culture of safety in aviation is one thing -- and the discipline it instills is valuable -- but you take it too far. Of course flying your own DP is not as "guaranteed safe" as an ODP, since great minds with actual measuring devices came up with the ODP, but if you know there's nothing to hit higher than 50' AGL within 20 miles of your airport, and you still aren't comfortable with flying a non-ODP DP, grow some balls.
 
Very good and relevant question which applies to both controlled and uncontrolled airports.

Even at the airline level we have pages in our manuals related to this very topic, SIDs/ODPs/Vecotrs/Single Engine Special Procedures etc.

I'll be the first to admit sometimes I have to review to see which applies as the order has changed in the last few manual revisions.
 
Patrick said:
Back to the OP's original post, I think you should ask your CFII for a more in depth discussion on this topic. You don't simply climb to pattern and then do whatever you want.
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Glad somebody pointed that out. Be very careful with that. It is not a true statement, hopefully it was somehow miscommunicated/misunderstood otherwise I wonder what else your CFII has told you...
 
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