"Andrew Sarangan" wrote in message
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But you have to first decide whether you need an alternate before going
to the trouble of picking one.

So?

Any airport does not qualify. Most of those airports have "A-NA" on the
chart, which stands for "Alternate - Not Authorized".

FAR 91.169 doesn't say anything about whether an alternate is authorized or
not. ANY airport is authorized, as long as VFR conditions from MEA to
landing are forecast.

The thread was a follow-up to 'flying to hamvention' thread. If you look
at the Dayton area, there aren't any airports within a short distance of
DAY that does not have an "A-NA" on it.

Ideally, an alternate would not be a short distance from your destination
anyway. After all, if the weather's too poor for landing at your
destination, often it will be at a nearby airport as well.

In any case, while something in that thread brought this to the original
poster's attention, the fact that he posted in a new thread implies to me
that he intended the question as a general one, not specific to that
particular destination.

Pete