While you are night current, you also acknowledge that you'd be navigating around terrain and storms in the dark. If you wait it out for a few hours, you'll arrive at night. Visibility must be 8 km above 10,000 feet and 5 km below that, clear of cloud. Storms are highly localized and it's tough to know exactly how bad the weather will be below the clouds.Īs you approach Roanoke, there will be areas of terrain as high as 4,000 feet MSL. Clearance is required from VFR aircraft before entering, and position. the ceiling and visibility requirements to maintain VFR would have been. Weather stations on either side of your route report VFR, MVFR, and even some IFR conditions. VFR into IMC / Controlled flight into terrain, Western Straits Air de Havilland. 93.343 Requirements for aircraft operations to or from College Park Airport, Potomac Airfield, or Washington Executive/Hyde Field Airport 93.345 VFR outbound procedures for fringe airports 93.350 Definitions 93. You're trying to decide if there's a safe route that will get you to Roanoke without large diversions east or west, as those diversions will add hundreds of miles to your route. There are scattered storms along the route. Minimum flight visibility and distance from clouds. When so prescribed by the authority, VFR flights at night may be permitted under the following conditions: if leaving.
Rules governing VFR flight have been adopted to assist the pilot in meeting the responsibility to see and avoid other aircraft. Minimum Visual Meteorological Conditions for VFR Flight in Controlled Airspace (i) when reported, ground visibility is not less than three miles, and (ii). You're taking this 121-mile VFR cross-country flight from Charlotte to Roanoke to avoid a 3.5 hour drive and make it home from Concord. Class G airspace (uncontrolled) is that portion of airspace that has not been designated as Class A, Class B, Class C, Class D, or Class E airspace.
135.613: Approach/departure IFR transitions. 135.611: IFR operations at locations without weather reporting. You're a non-instrument rated private pilot flying an IFR-capable Piper PA-28 Archer from KJQF Concord, NC (near Charlotte) to KROA Roanoke, VA. VFR ceiling and visibility requirements for Class G airspace. (a) No person may operate an airplane under VFR in uncontrolled airspace when the ceiling is less than 1,000 feet unless flight visibility is at least 2 miles.