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What are your IFR takeoff minimums?
Is this a trick question? If you say there aren’t any prescribed takeoff minimums for Part 91 operators, you would be correct; however, just because something is legal doesn’t make it smart. You might even have heard an instructor saying you can take off if it’s “zero-zero.” That advice is as impractical as it is, well, stupid. Flying involves risk. We can’t let ourselves be paralyzed by those risks, but we certainly need to manage them, so here are some factors you might want to consider in… (www.flyingmag.com) 기타...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
I came across Bill Butler post over a year old and had to laugh out loud. Similar circumstance: Flying form on a Delta Sierra wx night at 200' stepped down. Both a/c were broken. Lead had good navigation and we had good weapons systems. I broadcasted on guard " hey Skipper, this is stupid". He agreed and we RTB'd.
The question ought to be "What are your [Personal] IFR takeoff minimums? , in which case there can be no argumentative comment. Just a bunch of us shaking our heads in disbelief.
Personal Minimums are lifesavers for non professionals who don't fly 40 hours a month or so and don't encounter difficult situations frequently. Getting away with a risky take off or IFR approach a few times will embolden a pilot to take more and greater risks until the day comes when he encounters cumulo-granite clouds. Circling minimums for take off and approaches are just good sense if you don't do it every day.
True zero zero is just plain scary. If you have trouble driving to the airport wait.
Let us not forget that even though part 91 has no published minimums if the DP has a ceiling and or visibility minimum stated they do apply to part 91 operators.
Let us not forget that even though part 91 has no published minimums if the DP has a ceiling and or visibility minimum stated they do apply to part 91 operators.
Since ODPs are always optional for Part 91 (although I'd agree you'd almost always want to follow them in LIFR), the only case I could see the DP minimums being regulatory is if you were assigned a SID with ceiling/visibility in the takeoff minimums and I can't think of an example (at ELP - they say "standard" minimums and give a specific climb gradient for some runways). For part 91, there are no standard minimums, so I believe only the climb gradient would apply.
A lot of people think Part 91 could do anything, if that was the case there would be no Part 91...
Nobody listened, however. 'course, the only obstacle then was 70' below us:)