Originally Posted by
HR200
From everyones comments I am starting to believe my original understanding being as long as you can maintain VMC on the way up and down assuming your above 3000' (as per my original post) you can fly over the cloud but the comments of the UK not allowing a basic PPL to be out of sight of the surface is concerning if definate (at all altitudes)
HR200, it seems to me that you may be trying to convince yourself that you can do it ...
Yes, of course you can fly over cloud in VMC. However, if you only have the basic CAA PPL, then Schedule 8 of the UK ANO requires that you
must remain in sight of the surface at all times, confident or not - if you intend to stay legal, that is ...
There can be no equivocation.
JD
