SARblade Posted May 6, 2007 Report Share Posted May 6, 2007 I have been studying for my INRAT, I am writing tomorrow morning and one of the things that has me a little confused is the alternate weather minima. I am so used to applying the 600-2, 800-2 and the standard minima to this, and I have no problems, now I am reading the AIM and in it is a little table with this: FOR HELICOPTERS - ceiling 200 ft above teh minimum for the approach and visibility at least 1 SM, but never less than the minimum visibility for the approach to be flown. Does this mean that I no longer use the 600-2, 800-2, etc for alternate requirements? Am I to use 200-1 all the time now. Am I missing something here? I am converting from military to civilian flying and we never used this, always apply the precision, non-precision minima and could 1/2 the visibility for choppers. Any insight would be greatly appreciated before tomorrow. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan Posted May 6, 2007 Report Share Posted May 6, 2007 You got it amigo! FOR HELICOPTERS - ceiling 200 ft above the minimum for the approach and visibility at least 1 SM, but never less than the minimum visibility for the approach to be flown. That's all we need, and it can be applied to both precision and non-precision approaches. I remember when I did the IFR seminar at Pro. Took the instructor about 2 hours to explain alternate minimas to the fixed-wing pilots, and maybe 10 minutes to explain it to us heli folk haha. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SARblade Posted May 6, 2007 Author Report Share Posted May 6, 2007 You got it amigo! FOR HELICOPTERS - ceiling 200 ft above the minimum for the approach and visibility at least 1 SM, but never less than the minimum visibility for the approach to be flown. That's all we need, and it can be applied to both precision and non-precision approaches. I remember when I did the IFR seminar at Pro. Took the instructor about 2 hours to explain alternate minimas to the fixed-wing pilots, and maybe 10 minutes to explain it to us heli folk haha. Thanks Ryan, I am pretty confident with applying any of the minima, howver, i wouldn't want to get is wrong on the test tomorrow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Intrepid Posted May 7, 2007 Report Share Posted May 7, 2007 It's relatively new and confuses many who have been flying IFR for a while now....most likely because it's so simple - who's used to that?? !! It's outlined in the CAP Gen too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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