True…but for Class E or higher airspace unless someone has the authorization to correct it (and the towers I’m familiar with don’t have official observers who can do that), you’re counting on either not getting violated or having some evidence to say the AWOS/ASOS is wrong if it’s investigated.
Yeah. ASOS’s and AWOS’s can give some pretty weird reports. You must be talking about KDLS. Was there really a METAR? Or are you talking about just what the ASOS said?
While we’re here, it seems I remember a Surface Area at DLS not all that many years ago. Do you recall it?
Wouldn't that still be trolling?
Actual weather conditions don't always match AWOS / ATIS / METAR. It's the actual conditions that count. OP said that he doesn't know for sure, and that he's basing his position on the reported weather, not the actual.
What says the actual conditions count rather than reported for the OP’s scenario in a Class E surface area?
We've had multiple posts here from people identifying situations where the weather reports were IMC, and the actual conditions are clear and unlimited. I'm not saying that's what happened here. And if we get into a contest of quoting FAR's, I'm going to lose.
I would follow the regs (already posted in this thread at least once), and ensure legality in whatever I did.
ok, so slightly more serious question here. What if the converse is true??? What if the weather is reporting clear and unlimited, but it's obviously IMC. Now I really want to know what the rules say. Because this is a situation where I OBVIOUSLY want to trust my eyeballs and ignore the weather report. I'm not going to fly headlong into a cloud with the justification that, "The ATIS said it was fine."No.
The reg doesn’t say you MUST fly there if the weather report is good enough, so it becomes a risk management question rather than a regulatory question, although VFR cloud clearances still apply.
8 out of 10, since he uncovered a lack of knowledge on several people’s parts.
Is the airport in a Surface Area? If so, what from the AWOS made the 'field IFR? Ceiling or Visibilty?
And he hasn't been heard from in the six months since the thread was started (unless it was a regular member posting as a guest).
What does the pilot having an IR or not have to do with his running into an airliner?
I have no idea, because the OP isn’t responding or posting details. But that’s is certainly critical information.
Im not involved in this conversation, but I’ll take a guess…
