We all know what hard IMC weather looks like and VFR only pilots should never be anywhere near it and should never ever fly in cloud but there are a lot of conditions that a non-instrument pilot can fly in legally and safely without reference to the ground and even above cloud, today we’re going to look at some of those situations, and why you may want to do this.
Welcome to Short Field a channel all about the lighter side of aviation and today we taking a good look at flying under VFR rules above the clouds for the VFR only pilot and asking is it legal, is it safe and should you even do it? Hopefully we’ll answer all those questions in this video.
I also show you a potential accident scenario that I got myself in too where I should have known better.
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My name is Terry Kent and I am a General Aviation PPL private pilot operating out of North Weald EGSX in the UK. Short Field is my channel focused on the lighter side of aviation. I use various cameras to record my videos and stills and edit them in Adobe Premiere Pro, I always attempt to post my videos in the highest possible quality, normally 4k.
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