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Old 20th July 2006 | 21:30
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Clandestino
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From: Correr es mi destino por no llevar papel
My question : Why the RVR is so low ? With fog or mist, you won't be able to see the runway.
Not quite. Fog layer can sometimes be less than 100 ft deep with 10+ km visibility above. In such a circumstances, you can see all rwy and approach lights when you descend to your minimum and continue your approach below (M)DA. When your cockpit plunges into fog layer, you loose quite a bit of forward visibility - it's not smart to disregard RVR just because you see the RWY all the time. At worst, you can loose the sight of it in the flare.
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