What are the weather minimums for VFR flight?
Meteorology
What are the weather minimums for VFR flight?
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There are different VFR meteo minimum requirements based on the airspace. Meteorological minimums for VFR Flight are always described as a minimum cloud base clearance over terrain and minimum forward visibility.
Minimum required VFR weather is generally 5km of forward visibility and flying out of the clouds.
When preparing the flight, we have to take into the consideration that reporting weather conditions are applicable for the vicinity of observation station only. Reported fair weather at the observation station does not necessarily mean the fair weather couple of miles off the station.
Recommendation
We strongly recommend you to avoid flying VFR at marginal meteorological conditions. Current meteo conditions few miles out of the station might be significantly worse than the one reported at the station.
