Helicopter Question

| Class G is uncontrolled
"Jim Macklin" wrote
in message news:KKgkf.11482$QW2.64@dukeread08...
| Class is uncontrolled, no clearances are available. You
can
| depart an airport that is in Class G and begin an IFR when
| you enter controlled airspace...a clearance will read
| something like "...enter controlled airspace heading 240
| degrees..."
| In the "old days" it was easy to describe, special VFR was
| only available in what was called a control zone, which
was
| the controlled airspace around an airport from the ground
up
| to 14,500. Now, SVFR is, in theory, available in any
| airspace except Class A and such Class B as are listed in
| Appendix D, but it is still tied to an airport based
lateral
| boundary. You can't fly a cross-country under SVFR unless
| the two airports are "touching" their designated airspace.
|
| The purpose of SVFR is to get VFR only aircraft (pilots)
in
| and out of airports when the local weather is good enough
| for basic VFR once you get to the Class G or from the
Class
| G to the airport.
|
|
|
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| James H. Macklin
| ATP,CFI,A&P
|
| "Larry Dighera" wrote in message
| ...
|| On Fri, 2 Dec 2005 17:11:37 -0800, "Peter Duniho"
|| wrote in
|| ::
||
||
|| So, just as one can obtain an IFR approach clearance for
| an uncontrolled
|| airport, one can obtain a Special VFR clearance for an
| uncontrolled airport,
|| and for the same reasons.
||
|| That's not quite how I understand it. Isn't a Special
VFR
| clearance
|| only available in controlled airspace?
||
|| IFR approach/departure clearances are available in Class
G
| airspace as
|| well, right
|
|