"Anthony Chambers" wrote in
:

I've spent the past couple of hours researching this in the regs and
newsgroups... and am still a little confused

If I require an alternate airport for a IFR Flight plan, does that
alternate have to have official weather reporting? I read somewhere
that:

"The requirements for an airport to qualify for alternate minimums are
weather reporting and approach facility (navaid) monitoring"

But I also read that I can file an alternate with no approaches and no
weather reporting as long as I can descend under Basic VFR from the
MEA to the airport (Part 91).

You can file a destination with no approaches and no weather reporting as
long as you can descend VFR. But you have to have a legal alternate to do
so.

See FAR 91.169, http://tinyurl.com/no9h
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Regards,

Stan