VFR minimums for Group 3 Test
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geneticistx
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VFR minimums for Group 3 Test
Are there specific VFR conditions required for a group 3 ride to take place or be cancelled?
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Conflicting Traffic
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Re: VFR minimums for Group 3 Test
No. Any IFR ride can be done in actual as long as you have a legal alternate. So you (and the examiner) get to set the weather minima you'll use based on your experience level and aircraft equipment/capability.
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Re: VFR minimums for Group 3 Test
If it's an IPC then the recovery from unusual attitude items need to be conducted in VMC or at a safe altitude above a cloud layer, as per AC 401-004.
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Big Pistons Forever
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Re: VFR minimums for Group 3 Test
Ultimately the examiner gets to decide the required weather. Some examiners won’t fly actual IFR in single engine airplanes, especially privately registered ones.
Re: VFR minimums for Group 3 Test
Find out who the examiner is going to be & have a chat about their minimums for a group 3.
I have done many group 3 in the aircraft to ils minimums for real in crap weather - briefed the examiner on the weather & away we went.
Lower mainland was so ugly for one ride I had to use Victoria as an alternate,examiner was ok with that decision so off we went.
Flights were out of Boundary Bay at the time.
Daryl
I have done many group 3 in the aircraft to ils minimums for real in crap weather - briefed the examiner on the weather & away we went.
Lower mainland was so ugly for one ride I had to use Victoria as an alternate,examiner was ok with that decision so off we went.
Flights were out of Boundary Bay at the time.
Daryl
