Originally Posted by
PiperCameron
Well.. current NVFR Training is that, to start with, you rotate on instruments and climb straight ahead to at least 500' above airfield elevation. Unless you're in a pocket rocket that can climb upwind above LSALT within 3 miles (which excludes most GA aircraft) you have 2 choices: either depart overhead or on downwind, but either way you're doing a 180 back toward the airfield maintaining the climb, by which point, assuming 500ft/min or thereabouts you're at least 1,000’ AGL.
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All of which makes sense to me, but none of which determines - at least not in my mind - the substance of the VMC requirements applicable to NVFR operations at or below the higher of 3,000’ AMSL and 1,000’ AGL in G.
That procedure is no doubt intended to get you above LSALT without hitting granite or something affixed to it. However, it does not follow that you’re not required to be able to see that granite or stuff affixed to it while you’re on the way to LSALT (NVFR).