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than those published-an airport without
weather reporting on site will have
higher minimums, for example. Or a note
may say that the approach is not authorized
(NA) at night.
One thing's for sure, if the weather is
that low: You'll be using an approach with
vertical guidance, such as an ILS or an
RNAV (GPS) approach with localizer performance
with vertical guidance (LPV).
A precision approach such as an ILS can
give you minimums as low as 200 feet and a
half-mile. An LPV can offer the same minimums,
but because an LPV approach isn't
officially considered a precision approach
there is a drawback. When you name an
alternate, you can't use precision alternate
minimums (600 feet and two statute
miles) for airports that only have LPV
approaches.
But back to the question. How low can
Negotiate the
purchase.
Close on your
first aircraft.
you go? To minimums for sure, but what
about landing? You'll have to descend
below minimums for that. Fortunately,
FAR 91.175 lays out the details. To
descend below decision height (DH, on
ILS approaches), decision altitude (DA,
on approaches with vertical guidance),
or minimum descent altitude (MDA, for
nonprecision approaches) there are four
major requirements. Check FAR 91.175
for the specific language, but almost all
the requirements relate to visibility. Let's
hit the high points.
One is that you must be continuously
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in a position to make a normal landing,
using normal maneuvers, and at a normal
descent rate. In other words, a stabilized
approach. No wild banking to get on the
centerline, and no diving for the runway.
Another requirement is that the
flight visibility be no less than the published
minimum value. Here we get into
a subtlety. Flight visibility is the forward
horizontal view from the cockpit in flight.
In the context of an instrument approach,
another practical consideration is slant
range visibility-the view from the cockpit
down the approach path to the runway
ahead. In solid cloud, visibility is nil, but
you can see through thin clouds. Ground
fog, though, may be thin and patchy, and
not give a clear view of the runway. Of
course, checking metars while preparing
for the approach can give you a heads-up
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