Question to the IFR Pilots Out There

"Kobra" wrote in
:

Stan,

As soon as I finished flight school, I was expected to fly
approaches to
minimums, with the visibility minimums half of published.
I still do that regularly.

Was this done alone or with a copilot? Where you the
copilot? Who "expected" you to do this? That sounds like
the external pressure scenario that we were warned about
and the "half of published" visibility sounds illegal.
Asking, not telling.

Usually with a copilot, but not necessarily. The U.S. Army was
who was expecting me to do it. Now it's my employer.
Helicopters can usually cut the published visibility in half,
and it's completely legal. My ops specs permit reducing the
published visibility by half, but never below 1/4 mile. Same
thing for the military, IIRC, although it's been a long time
since I wore a green uniform. In a pinch, we did GCA's to very
little visibility.

--
Regards,

Stan

Usually with a copilot, but not necessarily. The U.S. Army was
who was expecting me to do it.

Ok, this makes more sense. I couldn't imagine a civilian aviation company
to expect this with paying passengers in an airplane.


Now it's my employer.
Helicopters can usually cut the published visibility in half,
and it's completely legal.

Thanks for the info. I didn't know this about rotary wing aircraft. Seems
to make sense though.

Kobra