TWR visibility

[Captzaahlie]

RVR rules....

CYA know your OPS SPECS don't get burned!


Here's one for ya, "can you get mono from riding a monorail"?

Sorry I couldn't resist......

This thread should be in the private pilot instrument section. My apologies in advance for the sarcasm.

 

[Captzaahlie]

Even though they are 121, turbo prop operators have different rules than jet operators.

that's way too vague a comment......
many have the same rules and in some cases the only reason turbo props have different rules are because it can be done safely in a TP and not in a jet....

 

[CallmeJB]

You can't shoot the ILS for 1R because the RVR reported for 1R is less than 1200. However if 1L is long enough to land on or if the wind will let you land on 19L (and it isn't reporting an RVR) then you can shoot the ILS for either of those runways because you have the 1/2sm.

Hate to be nit picky, but if 1R has RVR reporting, so does 19L. It's the same piece of pavement, with the same transmisometers (sp?).

Now if you have four of them, can one be inop? Which ones are controlling? Ahh! Let's not start that.

John

 

[great cornholio]

Hate to be nit picky, but if 1R has RVR reporting, so does 19L. It's the same piece of pavement, with the same transmisometers (sp?).

Now if you have four of them, can one be inop? Which ones are controlling? Ahh! Let's not start that.

John

I was thinking the same thing, but wasn't sure if all (or most) runways with RVR always have 3 transmisometers, or if there was a case were only 1 direction had only touchdown RVR.

 

[purduedchi]

I actually had this happen up in SYR to me. My company tried to suspend me for..get this "refusing to land an airplane". ATIS vis was fluctuating between 1/2 mile and 1 mile. Of course the ILS was OTS and the only approach was a VOR approach. Cat B required 3/4 and C+D required 1 1/4 mile. Being that Cat C was our lowest category I began holding. All RVR's were OTS as well, but tower was calling a tower vis of 3-4 miles. The only ones shooting approches were PDT because they were Cat B. To make a long story short my dispatch saw that PDT was getting in and then wrote me up for refusing to land. My flight managers tried to hang me instead of sticking up for me...so I ended the meeting and came back for another one with our POI. He basically referred our FM's to the piece of info that OakumBoy posted. I wish our FM's could have been suspended for being idiots. Basically it goes in this order:

Touchdown RVR
ATIS
Tower vis.
Tower vis can be used instead of ATIS if it is greater than 4 miles
Then again you always have the trump card..."in the interest of safety" I decided to divert...etc.