Originally Posted by
gerry111
I heard REX 469 in the vicinity of YGTH this afternoon and confirm Lead Balloon's comments. What really surprised me was that someone activated the PAL there around 4pm despite the bucket loads of visibility. (I was at 9500'.) Was that REX 469?
Not familiar with today’s weather in that area but even in day VMC we will active PAPI/VASI if it’s available. Silly not to.
Edit: before anyone says that we should be able to fly without them - we have plenty of ports in the network where we have to fly without them because they aren’t installed.