Originally Posted by
usmc-sgt
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.
Would that show as an 003 OVC though?
The younger pilot has a TiKTok channel with a questionable approach into F70. He calls it ‘low IFR freezing rain’. Hard to tell what the actual conditions were though.