No more "Left Downwind"?

You'll have to tell me. What was the point of your response to my
statement?

I don't know what the point is in responding to any of your statements.
But in any case you were saying "that's not the same thing". If you
are being so pedantic that by "same" you mean "identical", then your
statement is worthless - nothing that happens at one airport is idential
to what happens at a different airport - they are different airports.
But if you take "same" to mean "similar enough", then we merely differ
on how "enough" it is. The two things were the reverse of each other
but shared the property of being out of normal synch for a moment.

The purpose of SVFR in a surface area is usually to get in or out of an
airport within it when it cannot be done under basic VFR. Please explain
how that can be done while remaining above the ceiling of the Class D
airspace.

It cannot. However, if the marginal conditions continue to exist above
the D for some distance into the overlying E, then one can get out of
the airport by flying SFFR through the D, and through however much of
the E is necessary. If SVFR is available in that E, within D's
footprint, then it can be done. If not, then it can't. Sometimes this
makes a difference in being able to get out VFR.

What do you do if you don't find it?

Come back and land.

Jose
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