On Jan 16, 2:01*pm, Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
"Robert M. Gary" wrote :
If you were getting the lights at that distance, you didn't have 1/8
vis. That may have been the reported vis, but if an RVR were installed,
you would have been getting something a lot closer to legal vis.

I think part of the problem is that the FAA defines visibility during
the day as the ability to see an unlit object but we're looking at
high intensity lights in this case. You may only be able to see
something w/o lights 1/8mile away but may be able to see a strobe
light 1/2 mile away.

-robert