David Megginson writes: > > > That depends on where and when. I think that most pilots in the > eastern U.S. (you're there, aren't you, Norm?) would have been happy > even for 3 SM for much of this spring and summer, and L.A., of course, > has its smog. Somewhere like Arizona, on the other hand, 10 SM would > probably be considered a foggy day.
We are saying the same thing what I was emphasizing was that what we use as 'visibility' has *nothing* todo with airplanes :-) And my guess is that our 'visibility' is low for a typical sunny day. FWIW Here on the southeast coast of NewEngland < US > Which is definately not one of the 'clearer' places I have lived. A typical sunny day has visibility ~15-20 miles in the summer maybe twice that in the winter This varies a lot but for example today is a 'typical' Sunny Day and walking to town this morning, before all of the haze cleared, I had no problem seeing the Cliffs of Gay Head which are 18 miles away Trying to identify distant ground lights while glying at night is a good way to get an appreciation of 'visibility' Cheers Norman _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
