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Old 21st October 2025 | 18:09
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Originally Posted by Easy Street
Besides, "plus zero" is an impossible tolerance to achieve when maintaining an altitude or height. The only way of flying that route not above 200 feet on a "IFR-esque" procedural basis with an achievable tolerance would be to fly 150 feet plus or minus 50 feet, which would demand total focus on height keeping via radalt (it would be hopelessly unsafe to attempt to fly that low on barometric instruments).
I'vd argued before that any route that does not achieve 500ft above terrain is unsafe by the FAA's own standards, for much the same reasons.
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