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Day" over here is described as:
(1) the beginning of morning civil twilight, which is when the centre
of the rising sun’s disc is 6 degrees below the horizon; and
(2) the end of evening civil twilight, which is when the centre of the
setting sun’s disc is 6 degrees below the horizon:
So.... we can fly VFR without a night rating between Morning Civil Twilight & Evening Civil Twilight.
Having said that, most schools or clubs that I've flown at have an in-house rule about being on the ground 30 mins before ECT and not getting airborne until 30 minutes after MCT.
And Special VFR?
Special VFR flight means a VFR flight cleared by an ATC unit to operate within controlled airspace in meteorological conditions below visual meteorological conditions:
Which here for Airspace is 5km vis, 2km horizontally clear of cloud & 1,000 feet vertically clear of cloud - or 500 feet vertically clear of cloud if inside Control Zone. For Aerodromes is 1500 foot cloud base and 5 km vis.
Special VFR is given ONLY during the day and only to a minimum 600 foot cloud base and 1500 metres vis.
Is is that same over there?
