[QUOTE=lzakplt]The title of your last post says it all: Rules? A short review of some of you "expert" Alaskan flying wisdom shows you don't know what the rules are.
[QUOTE=SkyHigh]How is a Super cub suppose to benefit from ATC when they never get higher than 300' and don't have a transponder? What good is a GPS when you are flying 100' or less above the ground?
Originally Posted by SkyHigh
If you tell your boss that you can't go because the weather is less than 1000 and 5 while he watches a competitor taxi out with your pax it still will not put a smile on his face.
If your really don't get how flying VFR at 500' or more (that comes out of that funny book that you have no aquaintance with called the FARs) is safer than doing it at 100' or less as you have described, there is really no way I can explain it.
You must be a turbine guy. You sound like a pvt plt. What would you say to a crop duster? "Oh they fly too close to the ground. They are dangerous"! How about the military? Would you tell those fighters to "slow down"?
It is part of the job. When I flew part 135 in AK the rules were 500' and 2 miles vis. In order to come and go from an airport with an approach you needed 1 mile and clear of clouds for special VFR. Those were the rules. Outside of the airport and away from official observations it was anyone's guess as to what the WX was. I suppose you tell your boss that you had to turn around because at one point in the flight you suspected that the vis might of bumped 2 miles? Are you a surveyer? Can you accurately tell what two miles vis is from the flight deck? What then would you tell your boss when his reply is that all the other planes made it.
Your naivety exposes you as some kind of neophyte. If anything you are you are a new hire FO in a turbine twin. You probably haven't flown anywhere in Bristol Bay alone in a piston single. You probably haven't ever landed outside of the airport environment either. Once you mature a bit you will realize that rules are necessary and good to follow but every walk in life and every branch of aviation has to bend them from time to time in order to get the job done.
In case you are really that type "A" and out of touch with the realities of real world aviation then you would have an awesome career with the FAA. If you do reply to this please enlighten us with the position of privilege that you must have in order to posses such a green perspective?
SKyHigh