Comments on: Creating Personal Minimums http://www.askacfi.com/439/creating-personal-minimums.htm Flight Training Questions Answered Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:02:41 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: PlasticPilot http://www.askacfi.com/439/creating-personal-minimums.htm/comment-page-1#comment-860 PlasticPilot Wed, 14 Jan 2009 20:48:14 +0000 http://www.askacfi.com/?p=439#comment-860 Here's one I developed the day of my initial IFR checkride. The weather was fine so the briefing was short, but the examiner wrote a pseudo-metar for me to analyze. It included bad visibility and RVR, but was legal. I answered that it was legal to shoot the approach, but that with my experience I would not even try it. Even today I would probably not do it. Down to 200 feet within 550 meters visibility ? To relativise, this is slightly more than half the length of the lightning ramp... My two cents. Here’s one I developed the day of my initial IFR checkride. The weather was fine so the briefing was short, but the examiner wrote a pseudo-metar for me to analyze. It included bad visibility and RVR, but was legal. I answered that it was legal to shoot the approach, but that with my experience I would not even try it.

Even today I would probably not do it. Down to 200 feet within 550 meters visibility ? To relativise, this is slightly more than half the length of the lightning ramp…

My two cents.

]]> By: paul http://www.askacfi.com/439/creating-personal-minimums.htm/comment-page-1#comment-859 paul Wed, 14 Jan 2009 19:39:09 +0000 http://www.askacfi.com/?p=439#comment-859 My crosswind minimums change all the time depending on personal currency. Right now, they are real low as I feel rusty but in a couple of months they will go back up. So I agree that only the pilot can really know what his or her mins should be. Visibility minimums on the other hand are an absolute 5 miles and never less if I am landing VFR. I once flew up the LA basin in 4 miles and was scared the entire time by how little I could see. Had to be almost on top of Riverside Muni before I could see it, not good. My crosswind minimums change all the time depending on personal currency. Right now, they are real low as I feel rusty but in a couple of months they will go back up. So I agree that only the pilot can really know what his or her mins should be.

Visibility minimums on the other hand are an absolute 5 miles and never less if I am landing VFR. I once flew up the LA basin in 4 miles and was scared the entire time by how little I could see. Had to be almost on top of Riverside Muni before I could see it, not good.

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