Separating the men from the boys

"Doug "Woody" and Erin Beal" wrote...

I thumbed through 3710 today just to refresh my own knowledge. In my quick
perusal of the flight rules section, I could find no references to an
absolute minimum altitude for flying Navy aircraft.

Look at par 5.2.6.a on page 5-15.

On 11/4/03 9:17 PM, in article xZZpb.108555$HS4.919278@attbi_s01, "John R
Weiss" wrote:

Look at par 5.2.6.a on page 5-15.

Thanks, JR...

I thought it was in there somewhere... guess my perusal was too quick!

Quote:

"Except when necessary for takeoff and landing
or when the mission of the flight requires otherwise,
flights in fixed-wing aircraft shall not be
conducted below an altitude of 500 feet above the
terrain or surface of the water."

That sticky gray area for CO's is that first sentence isn't it? Formal LATT
training gets around that these days, but I could SWEAR that number was 200'
AGL in the late '80's - early '90's.

--Woody