Suit yourself.


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Dave A
Aging Student Pilot

-I can gather all the news I need
on the weather report-

"Neil Gould" wrote in message
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Recently, Dave A. posted:

We are taught for the Oral exam that the only way you can prove you
took off into legal minimums for VFR flight is to obtain a weather
briefing from the FSS or DUATS.
It is only the FSS or DUATS weather report for that time that
determines if you are legally allowed to be flying based on your
restrictions, whatever they may be.

So... you depart from a non-weather reporting airport that is below
minimum, while the reporting airport is CAVU, and you think you have
"proof" that you took off into legal minimums? Think again.

Around here, there are lots of airports, most non-reporting. It is not at
all unusual for one of the reporting airports to be below minimums while
others are above, or even CAVU. When you call for a briefing under such
conditions, the briefer offers pireps if they have them, and if they
don't, they leave it up to the pilot to determine the actual conditions.
It's not unusual to arrive at the non-reporting airport to find other
planes in the pattern, and any one of those pilots and/or tower can be
valid proof in court that conditions were above minimums. Essentially,
pireps trump briefings.

Regards,

Neil