Originally Posted by
TiredSoul
Information subject to correction:
Airplane old as sin was recently purchased with engines 600hrs away from overhaul according to the sales ad.
Chief pilot/ Lead pilot without an ATP which would be required for 135.
The weather was below minimums from 02:35 till 06:35 it didn’t move in suddenly after they canceled IFR:
https://www.weather.gov/wrh/timeseries?site=KF70
I used to fly there often. That whole valley often gets socked in with a ground fog in the mornings. Doesn’t mean it’s VFR (it’s not) or legal (certainly not) but it can typically be such that you’re staring at the runway the whole way down. A ground level obscuration event mostly.
Curios if it looked “good enough” so they gave it a shot.