On 5/16/2017 10:30 PM, jfitch wrote:

500 ft below the cloud has always been measured by whether the top winglet was still visible. At least by me and a bunch of other pilots .
....Like back in the day when we were young studs, sitting on the ramp 50
feet from the farthest part of the jet, smoking cigarettes while they
were refueling it for our next hop...

I recall a cartoon in a safety magazine back then showing a Cessna,
tooling along just below a cloud and, overtaking from the rear, is a
landing gear truck from a C-5 hanging just below the cloud...
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Dan, 5J