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'Light' IFR???

 
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 16, 2006 5:21 pm    Post subject: 'Light' IFR??? Reply with quote

I sort of agree with your definition, but would add that for it to be
light IFR, there shouldn't be any real chance of convective vertical cloud
development, nor any real chance of ice.. Also, I would say that light
IFR implies that you won't have to be on the needles for a whole flight.
Before departing into a layer, I'd want recent tops reports with clear
sunshine above.

I think it rare to be able to call night IFR ops as ever being 'light'. A
possible scenario would be the aforementioned flight to or from a coastal
California location - you'd better know that it's clear and starry on top,
and clear and starry at the desert airports to the east.
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Light IFR: defined in the Midwest as being on top of or below an
overcast cloud layer with AWOS/ASOS info that tells them on the other
side of the layer there are VFR conditions -- with adequate ceiling
near the ground, or above a certain level where the overcast top is.
Light IFR pilots have not filed IFR or may not be IFR qualified or
legally equipped for IFR, but they go on the instruments long enough to
fly up or down through the clouds to the other side expecting better
conditions.



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PostPosted: Tue Jan 17, 2006 6:32 am    Post subject: 'Light' IFR??? Reply with quote

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