Night IFR below LSALT
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Night IFR below LSALT
Just curious as to what the requirements are for IFR flight below LSALT at night?
Saw an aircraft flying around a city south of Sydney (which has a large steelworks) a couple of weeks ago, at night, at 1500 feet, below the height of the moutains (2000 feet) which are 2 miles to the west of the city and conducting continous orbits over the town, considering the LSALT to the north of that aerodrome is 3600 feet.
I believe the aircraft has a contract requirement to always flight plan IFR and was not conducting any search and rescue at the time.
Saw an aircraft flying around a city south of Sydney (which has a large steelworks) a couple of weeks ago, at night, at 1500 feet, below the height of the moutains (2000 feet) which are 2 miles to the west of the city and conducting continous orbits over the town, considering the LSALT to the north of that aerodrome is 3600 feet.
I believe the aircraft has a contract requirement to always flight plan IFR and was not conducting any search and rescue at the time.
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To answer the above....
It was not a search and rescue tasking (either federal or state level).
And the aerodrome is located 10nm SW from the city CBD (so well oustside circuit, GPS NPA and NDB approach altitudes).
The company involved consistantly performs these training exercises, purely for training purposes. Not for actual SAR tasking, as these are very few and far between (even though the public think otherwise).
If POLAIR were conducting the training I would be happy to let them fly around at low altitiude as each pilot has several thousand hours of experience and im sure their operations manual and CASA approvals would also reflect this.
It was not a search and rescue tasking (either federal or state level).
And the aerodrome is located 10nm SW from the city CBD (so well oustside circuit, GPS NPA and NDB approach altitudes).
The company involved consistantly performs these training exercises, purely for training purposes. Not for actual SAR tasking, as these are very few and far between (even though the public think otherwise).
If POLAIR were conducting the training I would be happy to let them fly around at low altitiude as each pilot has several thousand hours of experience and im sure their operations manual and CASA approvals would also reflect this.
