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Old 31st Aug 2017, 14:38
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Central Scrutinizer
 
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Originally Posted by scifi
So my tactic was to descend to 550ft agl to remain in VMC. However it got worse, and maybe below legal VMC conditions. So I handed control to my friend, who seemed to be worried about Minimum Safety Altitude, and he decided we needed to climb to 2100ft, where the rain was even worse with zero visibility. No sooner than we had climbed, we broke out of the back side of the rain-cloud into cavok again.
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That was the right choice your friend did. If you're being pushed down to 500 AGL and you're not capable of climbing into the clouds, it's a good time to divert and turn back to where you came from. But for the love of God don't get trapped under a closing gap between clouds and terrain!
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