Originally Posted by
bingofuel
Looking at the pictures you can see the horizon which is considerably more than 5km away.
5km is in reality pretty poor vis and unless you really needed to go somewhere I suspect you would,not even walk out to the aeroplane.
Imagine a typical large airport runway of 8000ft, picture yourself on a visual base leg, the far end of the runway is about 5km away. Would you fly in that visibility?
Ah that's what I was looking for.. some kind of 'mental model' as to what 5km of visibility would actually look like for my brain to process.
If that's only how far I could see I would definitely not fly.. My home base is only 3500ft runway and if I couldn't make the far end of that out then I would be concerned.
I hear a lot of stories about licenses being revoked etc for pilot stupidity and what could have been avoided.. though I don't know how true!
Thanks!
Scoobster