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Old 14th Jun 2016, 07:17
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prospector
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megan,

For the Antarctic flights at what point did it become non VFR?


I hate to belabor the point that you are doing your best to avoid answering, on one hand you are saying some flights were in VMC, but
You are talking about two different things. VMC is visual meteorological conditions, VFR is Visual Flight Rules. The flights were, to the best of my knowledge, always operated under IFR, Instrument Flight Rules.

Are you referring to my post 672 in which I mistakenly used VFR rather than VMC? that was a mistake and has been rectified.

Dick Smith,
I don't recall anything about any other ONC style charts being used or even carried.
From the Bolt/Kennedy Report into the performance of NZCAA
Regarding these matters, the Bolt/Kennedy report notes that the airliners captain (J.Collins) had in fact been issued with a map on the day of the flight but commented that while it may have been better that this map had been made available at the general crew briefing a day or so earlier, it considered this matter to be the responsibility of the airline rather than of the C.A.D

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