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Baseline Personal Minimums

Weather Condition VFR MVFR IFR LIFR
Federal Aviation
Ceiling
Day Administration
Night

Visibility
Day Getting the Maximum from
Night
Personal Minimums
Turbulence SE ME Make/Model Step 1 – Review Weather Minimums
Surface
Wind Speed
Surface Step 2 – Assess Your Experience and
Wind Gust Personal Comfort Level
Crosswind
Component
Step 3 – Consider Other Conditions
Performance SE ME Make/Model
Step 4 – Assemble and Evaluate
Shortest
runway
Highest Step 5 – Adjust for Specific Conditions
terrain
Highest
density altitude Step 6 – Stick to the Plan!
Adjust baseline personal
If you are facing:
minimums to: Category Ceiling Visibility

Illness, medication, At least greater than

stress, or fatigue; lack of 500 feet to ceiling VFR and greater than 5 miles
Pilot 3,000 feet AGL
currency (e.g., haven’t A
flown for several weeks) d At least
d ½ mile to visibility Marginal
1,000 to 3,000
An unfamiliar airplane, or At least VFR and/or 3 to 5 miles
feet AGL
Aircraft an aircraft with unfamiliar 500 ft to runway
avionics/ equipment: length
Airports and airspace S 500 to below 1 mile to less than 3
u IFR and/or
enVironment with different terrain or 1,000 feet AGL miles
unfamiliar characteristics b
t At least
“Must meet” deadlines, r 5 knots from winds below 500 feet
External a
LIFR and/or less than 1 mile
passenger pressures; AGL
Pressures c
etc.
t
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Think of personal minimums as the human factors equivalent of Summarize values for weather experience and
reserve fuel. Personal minimums should be set so as to provide a “comfort level” in the chart below, and enter
solid safety buffer between the skills required for the specific flight
you want to make, and the skills available to you through training,
values for turbulence & performance.
experience, currency, and proficiency.

Experience & “Comfort Level” Assessment

Review and record your certification, training, and Combined VFR & IFR
recent experience history on the chart below. Weather
VFR MVFR IFR LIFR
Condition
CERTIFICATION LEVEL
Ceiling
Certificate level
(e.g., private, commercial, ATP) Day
Ratings Night
(e.g., instrument, multiengine)
Endorsements Visibility
(e.g., complex, high performance, high altitude)
Day
TRAINING SUMMARY
Flight review
Night
(e.g., certificate, rating, Wings)
Instrument Proficiency Check
Experience & “Comfort Level” Assessment
Time since checkout in airplane 1 Wind & Turbulence
Make/
Time since checkout in airplane 2 SE ME
Model
Time since checkout in airplane 3 Turbulence
Variation in equipment Surface wind speed
(e.g., GPS navigators, autopilot)
EXPERIENCE Surface wind gusts

Total flying time Crosswind component

Years of flying experience
RECENT EXPERIENCE (last 12 months)
Hours Experience & “Comfort Level” Assessment
Performance Factors
Hours in this airplane (or identical model)
Make/
Landings SE ME
Model
Night hours Performance
Night landings
Shortest runway
Hours flown in high density altitude
Hours flown in mountainous terrain Highest terrain
Crosswind landings Highest density altitude
IFR hours
IMC hours (actual conditions)
Approaches (actual or simulated)
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