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Visual landings are only disallowed at night. Get your facts straight.

• thriftwy 3y ago
  What if they have to do one in emergency scenario, and they only ever did this in daylight?
• jcalvinowens 3y ago
  >> Pilots are not going to be accustomized of visual landings in case of emergency > Visual landings are only disallowed at night I don't agree with the rest of what he said... but he actually has a valid point here. Emergencies happen at night too, and sometimes the nature of the emergency will make an instrument approach impossible.
  • growse 3y ago
    The visual approach isn't an issue, it's the requirements to maintain visual separation. Under emergency conditions, you'd expect the separation to be handled by ATC.
    • jcalvinowens 3y ago
      > Under emergency conditions, you'd expect the separation to be handled by ATC. ATC is never responsible for general traffic separation in visual meteorological conditions in the United States. ATC is responsible for separating IFR airplanes from other IFR airplanes. When flying below 18000ft MSL in VMC, those IFR aircraft are still responsible for looking out the window to see and avoid VFR aircraft who may not be talking to ATC (and to be clear, the VFR aircraft is jointly responsible). Just to drive this home: it is still 100% legal to fly around in a Piper Cub at 9500ft MSL with no transponder or radio in most of the country. It is legal to fly around VFR in a jet at 17500ft squawking 1200 not talking to ATC almost everywhere in the country. Primary radar coverage is going away, not getting better. You have to look out the window.