Sorry if some of these IRs are confusing ; ) if we are talking about the enroute IR where you have to drop out of CAS before the STAR and cannot fly an instrument approach then there are a number of safety issues
1 where do you get your destination weather? Fly to Barcelona surrounded by big mountains and the coastal weather given for Barcelona can be very different to your departure from CAS point maybe 25 miles away over heavy terrain!
2 with no instrument landing ability what happens to Joe Bloggs sitting in the sun at 10k who has a problem which means he had to land?
Using the Bsrcelona example I have departed UK in CAVOK Barcelona CAVOK and had the airfields enroute reporting 800 meters overcast 200 what does our intrepid enroute pilot do when forced to land enroute ?
We discussed this before there has to be inbuilt safeguards for those eventualities
Pace
Last edited by Pace; 28th October 2013 at 13:33.