Originally Posted by
sobo
When did you have class? The SOP I have is revision 3.15.2016.
Awesome thanks for the information. I have a relatively new SOP but I think I guess I will need to figure out for sure before I commit to learning these flows.
-Alex
Sounds like you do have the new SOP. Like I said, it has been approved but they haven't gotten it out to the crews yet. Sounds like they are getting it to the new hires to use during the next training class. Glad they are doing that.
Originally Posted by
astofila
so basically you can't takeoff if your airport of intended landing is below mins
Originally Posted by
sobo
That's correct. Under 135 regs you may not depart if your destination airport wx is reporting below minimums.
Absolutely correct.
Now, one thing you CAN do is file to a different destination (that is above mins) that overflies (or goes somewhere near) the airport you WANT to go to and if it is above mins when you near it you can change your destination and go in there. Just be prepared to go to the filed destination. I did that very thing last week. Our planned destination was below mins and forecast to stay below so we filed to another airport about 80 miles shy. As we got close I checked the ATIS of our normal destination. In this case it was still down so we landed and waited. The customer decided to drive over and pick up the freight there. Just as they arrived our normal destination came up but it wasn't worth them driving back and actually taking a larger delay so we unloaded and then repositioned empty.