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07-31-2011, 05:10 PM
#2891
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You guys are helping-Hubs read all posts. Keep it coming. I guess I'm the one who is really confused as he tried to explain it to me: there are 3 departure points; let's say that your company says you cannot take off unless those 3 points read 6, 6 and 6, but the runway standards for that runway say you can takeoff at 6, 6, and 5. Let's say the runway currently reads 6, 6 and n/a. What do you do?
07-31-2011, 05:24 PM
#2892
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you can go because 6/6/m is ok, you can have one missing. They are light guns, that shoot down the runway and with a fancy computer inside they measure how far they can "see", which is converted to human talk and gives you the distance you can see from the cockpit while looking down the runway. I am trying to keep this simple. The chart put out by the FAA/airport tells you what is legal for take off at that airport/ runway from those light guns. If one light gun is broken and the report is missing you can take off, if two are broken can NOT go. However you can never ever go if they fall below what the chart says is legal. The chart will also say that those bright lights all over the runway you can see have to be working, and if some are not working then the RVR becomes a higher value since you have less to see from the cockpit around you to tell where you are going.
Now to try and put this on an understandable level, lets just say that you have 3 RVR guns at somewhere like San Francisco which is on a bay next to water, and two guns are on the runway away from the water, and one rvr gun is right next to the water, somewhere that would typically get much thicker fog. Rumor has it that ATC might say the RVR is 6/6/m to keep traffic moving since that 3rd gun is not really realistic to the remainder of the airport, due to its close proximity to the water. Thus if ATC were to report 6/6/5 the airport would come to a standstill, so something like 6/6/m would keep things moving. !!!!!Now that is merely a way to remember it and not how things would ever really work in real life.!!!!
Is there someone who really into being a CFII on here that wants to explain it quoting the AIM/FARs and give a better answer.
Now to try and put this on an understandable level, lets just say that you have 3 RVR guns at somewhere like San Francisco which is on a bay next to water, and two guns are on the runway away from the water, and one rvr gun is right next to the water, somewhere that would typically get much thicker fog. Rumor has it that ATC might say the RVR is 6/6/m to keep traffic moving since that 3rd gun is not really realistic to the remainder of the airport, due to its close proximity to the water. Thus if ATC were to report 6/6/5 the airport would come to a standstill, so something like 6/6/m would keep things moving. !!!!!Now that is merely a way to remember it and not how things would ever really work in real life.!!!!
Is there someone who really into being a CFII on here that wants to explain it quoting the AIM/FARs and give a better answer.
Last edited by lakehouse; 07-31-2011 at 05:51 PM.
07-31-2011, 05:41 PM
#2894
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Posts: 2,413
cheat what system, if you have not flown 121, how would you know much about this, who would be out with 500 hours and 50 multi flying around in 600 rvr in some piston airplane????
Oh or do you mean they should pay the $5 for the airline interview gouge website, is that the system the are cheating?
Oh or do you mean they should pay the $5 for the airline interview gouge website, is that the system the are cheating?
08-01-2011, 04:00 AM
#2897
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The interviewers want basic good old IFR regs, which can easily be found in the FARs.
FYI, giving answers that you really know nothing about let alone explain them correctly would be like shooting yourself in the di**
08-01-2011, 05:17 AM
#2898
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Joined APC: Jun 2011
Posts: 137
Actually, those questions were asked at a recent Eagle interview one of my husband's friends had and it threw him off. Also, my husband can't get an account here because his employer's email accounts aren't accepted for some reason. He's done plenty of studying, and spent all day studying yesterday, I'm only trying to get him some extra help so that he is successful. You can never have too much information. Thanks to all who responded, it was very helpful and I printed out the responses for the hubs!
08-01-2011, 08:38 AM
#2900
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Actually, those questions were asked at a recent Eagle interview one of my husband's friends had and it threw him off. Also, my husband can't get an account here because his employer's email accounts aren't accepted for some reason. He's done plenty of studying, and spent all day studying yesterday, I'm only trying to get him some extra help so that he is successful. You can never have too much information. Thanks to all who responded, it was very helpful and I printed out the responses for the hubs!
Other than that I don't think his friend failed the interview only because the RVR questions. You can miss a couple of them and still getting hired.
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