Vicinity of the Airport 91.103

[ppragman]

www.fltplan.com

Click QICP Weather

Type in your location/route.

Click the button.

Problem solved.

Total time to solve problem. 15.8 Seconds.

-mini

DUATs is about the same amount of time, then you have "legit" wx.

 

[minitour]

DUATs is about the same amount of time, then you have "legit" wx.

QICP is just as legit as Duats.

From fltplan.com

FltPlan.com is an FAA approved and certified QICP Weather provider, and has extensive weather reporting capabilities. By selecting "WEATHER" on the Main Page, you can retrieve individual location weather reports, winds aloft charts, radar and satellite images, airmet/sigmet charts or a complete enroute weather briefing for a specfic flight plan. The enroute brief also contains departure and arrival airport runway information including which runway has a precision approach. You can even retrieve an enroute weather briefing for more that one flight plan at a time. Simply check the boxes for each flight plan in the Weather Section. Use the "PRINT" button on your browser to print out the results. Make sure you check the date and time of all weather data and images.


Emphasis not mine.

-mini

 

[ppragman]

QICP is just as legit as Duats.

From fltplan.com

FltPlan.com is an FAA approved and certified QICP Weather provider, and has extensive weather reporting capabilities. By selecting "WEATHER" on the Main Page, you can retrieve individual location weather reports, winds aloft charts, radar and satellite images, airmet/sigmet charts or a complete enroute weather briefing for a specfic flight plan. The enroute brief also contains departure and arrival airport runway information including which runway has a precision approach. You can even retrieve an enroute weather briefing for more that one flight plan at a time. Simply check the boxes for each flight plan in the Weather Section. Use the "PRINT" button on your browser to print out the results. Make sure you check the date and time of all weather data and images.


Emphasis not mine.

-mini

Well that's neat, I just signed up. Thanks.

 

[minitour]

Just make sure you click "QICP Weather" and not "Weather". If you're 135, it has to be in your op specs under QICP for it to count.

-mini

 

[Mike H]

" We have no specific, fixed definition of "vicinity", but instead, interpret its meaning on a case-by-case basis.

So the meaning of "vicinity" really depends on the purpose of the flight.

Seems to me from studying for the CFI written-errrr, Knowledge Test- that there's a regulation concerning ELT's that says, more or less, that it's OK to conduct flight training in an airplane without a working ELT so long as the flight stays within the vicinity of the airport, and then goes on to define vicinity as 50nm.

 

[TFaudree_ERAU]

Fascinating.

I was thinking more along the lines of "not surprising".