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Originally Posted by JohnBurke (Post 3865911)

When you reach minimums, how do you determine that you have the published flight visibility for that procedure, brightspark?

Once again, junior, you have demonstrated your lack of understanding and application of the regulations.

"HOW" a pilot determines the flight visibility is only tangentially related. However, the "HOW" is mostly irrelevant, because the FAA cares not HOW you determine it. If you count it in furlongs, parsecs, or statute miles, it does not matter.

The regulation simply states you must not have less than the charted visibility.

It is a binary. 0/1. You either have it, or you don't.

However, you are deflecting from the scope of your original claim - you claimed one did not have to determine it, or, that seeing runway environment items automatically suffices as "flight visibility."

It matters not the "how."

What matters is - it is REQUIRED.

End of discussion John.

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Originally Posted by METO Guido (Post 3865938)

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Sorry but I get what JBs saying. Anytime you take it to the pavement, less autoland/hud, even after the gear makes contact, an unreported obscuration like patches or fog bank can and has caused runway excursions onto unpaved surfaces. Buyer beware faf to runway exit.

Yes, unreported obscuration could cause someone to drive it into the weeds.

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Originally Posted by 501D22G (Post 3866073)

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