Originally Posted by
worrab
Only 1˝km vis required (in the UK) in class G at less than 140kt.
And at 139 kts, that's 21 seconds flying time.
Nobody but a halfwit would fly in those conditions in a fast aeroplane and genuinely treat it as a visual conditions flight.
1.5km visibility is for instrument pilots in suitably equipped aeroplanes, or pilots of very slow aeroplanes who probably also know the area around them extremely well. The legality might mean that the instrument pilot is logging VFR, but that is not necessarily the practical reality. I'd do it from my microlight club at 50 knots around known terrain, or from work - which has instrument approaches, in my 100kt tourer - and treat it as instrument flight.
I'm working on being shot in bed at the age of 105 by a jealous husband. I really don't want a funeral at well under half that where people say "well he was legal, but stupid".
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