Kenny KellerCreator Helicopter Online Ground School LLC

Class G Airspace Weather Minimums Helicopter Online Ground School

9 Feb 2016 · 2 min

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Kenny Keller walks through FAA weather minimums for helicopters in Class G airspace under 14 CFR 91.155. He covers visibility and cloud clearance rules for three altitude bands: surface level, 1,200 to 10,000 feet, and 10,000 feet and above, with separate day and night requirements.

Questions this video answers

1/2 statute mile visibility and clear of clouds.

1 statute mile visibility and clear of clouds.

1 statute mile visibility; cloud clearance as 'clear of clouds' for day helicopter operations (presenter states one statute mile).

3 statute miles visibility and cloud clearance per the '512' rule: 500 ft below, 1,000 ft above, 2,000 ft horizontal.

5 statute miles visibility; cloud clearance 1,000 ft below, 1,000 ft above, and 1 statute mile horizontally.

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Hello, I'm Kenny Keller, the creator of Helicopter Online Ground School, and this is a video on the updated weather minimums in class G for helicopters. So I'm making this video to post for our members as we update the different presentations within our site. So my reference for this presentation is the Faraim 2016. We go to 91.155 under part 91 and we're going to scroll to class G under the heading four helicopters. So we have four helicopters day and night. The day is 1/2 statute mile clear clouds. Night, 1 statute mile clear clouds. Next we go to more than 1200ft above the surface, but less than 10,000ft MSL. Day is one statute mile. And the 512 rule. 500ft below, thousand feet above, 2000ft horizontal for the night. More than 1200ft above the surface, but less than 10,000 three statute miles. And again the 51 2, which is 500ft below, thousand feet Above, 2000ft horizontal. Then we have more than 1200ft above the surface at or above 10,000ft MSL, which is then five statute miles, a thousand feet below, a thousand feet above, and one statute mile horizontally from the clouds. So again, that's class G4 helicopters. And if you want to look this up yourself or tab it in your FAR a manual 91.155 basic VFR weather minimums. So add any comments you'd like to make down below and we'll see in the next video.