October 11th 06, 10:57 AM
posted to rec.aviation.ifr,alt.aviation.safety,rec.aviation.student
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Federal Aviation Administration to cut more air traffic controllers
"John Mazor" wrote in message
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Under what circumstances would choosing to depart from an unlighted
runway at night be considered consistent with professional flight crew
conduct in this type of operation?
As far as I've been able to determine so far, if it is not in the FOM,
nothing precludes a 121 crew from using an unlighted runway. As I said,
I'm still trying to get information on the Comair FOM.
Another poster cited a reference to FAR 121.97. That reg says *nothing*
about whether a crew can use an unlighted runway. It goes to the
operator's requirements with respect to using airports and distributing
necessary information on airports to flight crews.
http://www.risingup.com/fars/info/part121-97-FAR.shtml
So while most pilots might say in the abstract that they wouldn't take off
from an unlighted runway, there is no FAR against it as far as I can tell.
So unless it's in the crew's FOM, not only is not an absolute rule, for
them, it's not a rule at all. Granted, that puts it in the realm of an
after-the-fact judgment call as to how "professional" a crew's
discretionary decisions might have been, but that means that it is
debatable, and not the automatic slam-dunk that some here seem to think.
The question was not to legality but to judgment.
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