Flying in the margins: understanding and flying marginal VFR weather involves more than just playing the game of ceiling and visibility numbers.(AIRMANSHIP)(visual flight rules) From: Aviation Safety | Date: October 1, 2007| Author: Pardo, Jeff | COPYRIGHT 2007 Belvoir Media Group, LLC. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

In some ways VFR flying can be more challenging than flying under instrument flight rules. Apart from achieving the skill of being able to read and understand the instruments, controlling an aircraft solely by reference to them, talking to and taking notes from ATC and planning your next move--all at the same time--IFR flying is almost entirely built upon procedures. Compared to VFR flying, it's about as intuitively challenging as rendering a picture by the use of numbered colored ...