Perhaps this was mentioned already, but I believe in the US in order to request an SVFR clearance at night you also have to be instrument rated and the plane must be equipped for IFR flight. I don't recall whether you have to be IFR current or not though. Sounds like you were fine in this respect though, just wanted to point it out.
-Adam Ryan Larson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have only had to ask for SVFR once.. and ironically it was because I > needed to do a VFR night flight for my multi engine rating. We left > KDPA north to KFLD. On the way back the visibility had dropped to about > 2 miles and the cloud deck had dropped to about 1200 AGL. Now normally > I would simply call up and get an IFR clearance to fly the approach, but > to I needed to log this as a VFR trip. So we called up KDPA tower and > asked for a SVFR clearance. They told us to hold 7 miles north of the > field while they took care of two IFR flights landing. Once they were > done with them, they allowed us to enter the airspace and land. We had > to dodge some light snow showers and a few low clouds, but with the help > of the Garmin 430 GPS, we were able to find the airport and land safely. > > Ryan > _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
