October 14, 200421 yr Hi Captains,here are some screenshots of my recent flights with the beautiful PMDG 737 in awesome weather:Lined up at Seattle in a foggy dawn with 1/4 SM visibility and OVC at 100ft:http://forums.avsim.net/user_files/94373.jpgReady to go in the fog:http://forums.avsim.net/user_files/94375.jpgFinally clear of fog and other clouds, climbing enroute to Denver with the rising sun almost ahead:http://forums.avsim.net/user_files/94374.jpg
October 15, 200421 yr Nice! Would an airline even T/O in that low of visibility? - Chris Gigabyte Z790 Aorus Elite AX | Intel Core i9 13900KF | Gigabyte GeForce RTX 4090 24 GB | 64GB DDR5 SDRAM | Corsair H100i Elite 240mm Liquid Cooling | 1TB & 2TB Samsung Gen 4 SSD | 1000 Watt Gold PSU | Windows 11 Pro | Thrustmaster Boeing Yoke | Thrustmaster TCA Captain X Airbus | Asus ROG 38" 4k IPS Monitor (PG38UQ) Asus Maximus VII Hero motherboard | Intel i7 4790k CPU | MSI GTX 970 4 GB video card | Corsair DDR3 2133 32GB SDRAM | Corsair H50 water cooler | Samsung 850 EVO 250GB SSD (2) | EVGA 1000 watt PSU - Retired
October 15, 200421 yr Minimums visibility requirements widely change from airline to airline, airport to airport, type of aircraft and crew certification.Some airline/aircraft/crew are legal to commence a takeoff with an RVR of just 75m (that's about 250ft), where the reported meteorological visibility is surely in order of zero or 50/100 m (less than 1/16 SM).1/4 SM is 400m VIS (should be around 500/600m RVR but it's very variable and FS9 doesn't handle RVR values and variable visibility along the same runway), that's not too bad.And I add that I got a good alternate for takeoff, should something go awry: the KBFI (just a few miles north) was 5SM and FEW030...
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