I agree with parts and disagree with parts but it. Worth a read.
https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/avi...s-to-alaskas-high-rate-of-deadly-air-crashes/
https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/avi...s-to-alaskas-high-rate-of-deadly-air-crashes/
I think its pretty simple, if you don't want to crash into a giant mountain, don't fly in weather that you can't see said mountain. Nothing is so important that you need to push weather.
A couple of points I'll add from my flying and that the article doesn't address.
Holes in ADS-B ground station coverage affect TIS-B weather but not much else. If all the planes flying have ADS-B out they can see each other without ground stations. The second point? If they see somebody out there they should be able to ask for a weather observation, right? Pick the best route by comparing notes? But no commercial pilot I know is going to tell the truth on the radio when weather is below minimums, and they experience it fairly frequently.
The second point almost killed me one low, gray, rainy day when I asked a pilot passing overhead how the weather was as I was deciding go-no go. 1000 and three was the answer. No problem. I launched into solid IFR just a few feet above the treetops. When I told an old instructor friend, the then FSDO Safety Manager, he asked me what I expected that pilot to say? He wasn't going to tell me the truth. And with that said? The FAA is part of the problem.
Back in the days of flying reciprocating engine airliners into uncontrolled airports that was called "Chamber of Commerce Weather". I recall one incident of getting down to minimums at an island airport (ACK) and still being "on top" in the clear!Many years ago, on an island far away, pilots expressed weather that wasn’t quite “legal” with terminology such as: Welll, it’s a scant 1000 and 3”.
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Back in the days of flying reciprocating engine airliners into uncontrolled airports that was called "Chamber of Commerce Weather". I recall one incident of getting down to minimums at an island airport (ACK) and still being "on top" in the clear!
Yes through the layer of fog.Could you see the airport looking straight down?