Originally Posted by
Okihara
There's so much compressed stupidity in this sentence. How, just how can it make "perfect sense" to put a waypoint behind a "big mountain" on the premise that it would be "visible from many miles away, on a fine day"? I mean that quite seriously. What's your answer when the day is not so fine after all and that you have a waypoint taking you straight over a mountain 12,500' while you have a sound at sea level just a few miles west?
You maintain LSALT. You wouldn’t be able to see the sound on a ‘not so fine day’.