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Step 4: Assemble and evaluate baseline personal minimums.

Baseline Personal Minimums
Federal Aviation
Weather Condition
Administration
VFR MVFR IFR LIFR

Ceiling
Day 3000
Night 5000
Visibility
Day
Night
5 SM
8 SM
Developing Personal Minimums
Turbulence SE ME Make/Model Think of personal minimums as the human factors
Surface equivalent of reserve fuel. Personal minimums
Wind Speed 15 kts
Surface should provide a solid safety buffer between:
Wind Gust 5 kts
Crosswind
Component 10 kts Skills required for the specific flight, and

Performance SE ME Make/Model
Skills available to you through your training,
Shortest
experience, currency, and proficiency.
runway 4000 ft.
Highest
terrain 10000 ft.
Highest
density altitude Step 1 Review Weather Minimums

Step 5: Adjust for specific conditions. Step 2 Assess Weather Experience and
Adjust baseline personal Personal Comfort Level
If you are facing:
minimums to:

Illness, medication, At least Step 3 Consider Winds and Performance

stress, or fatigue; lack of 500 feet to ceiling
Pilot
currency (e.g., havent A
flown for several weeks) d At least Step 4 Assemble Baseline Values
d mile to visibility
An unfamiliar airplane, or At least Step 5 Adjust for Specific Conditions
Aircraft an aircraft with unfamiliar 500 ft to runway
avionics/ equipment: length
Airports and airspace S Step 6 Stick to the Plan!
enVironment with different terrain or u
unfamiliar characteristics b
t At least
Must meet deadlines, r 5 knots from winds
External a
passenger pressures;
Pressures c
etc.
t
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Step 1: Review definitions for VFR & IFR weather minimums. Step 2(b): Enter values for weather experience/ comfort level.
Category Ceiling Visibility Experience & Comfort Level Assessment
Combined VFR & IFR
VFR greater than 3,000 AGL and greater than 5 miles Weather
VFR MVFR IFR LIFR
Condition
MVFR 1,000 to 3,000 AGL and/or 3 to 5 miles Ceiling
Day 3000
1 mile to less than 3
IFR 500 to 999 AGL and/or
miles Night 5000

LIFR below 500 AGL and/or less than 1 mile Visibility

Day 5
Night
Step 2(a): Record certification, training, & recent experience. 8
CERTIFICATION LEVEL
Certificate level (e.g., private, commercial, ATP) Private
Ratings (e.g., instrument, multiengine)
Step 3(a): Enter values for experience / comfort in turbulence.
Endorsements (e.g., complex, HP, high altitude)
TRAINING SUMMARY Experience & Comfort Level Assessment
Flight review (e.g., certificate, rating, Wings) Wind & Turbulence
Instrument Proficiency Check Make/
SE ME
Model
Time since checkout in airplane 1
Turbulence
Time since checkout in airplane 2
EXPERIENCE Surface wind speed 15
Total flying time 90 Hours Surface wind gusts 5
Years of flying experience 2
Crosswind component 10
RECENT EXPERIENCE (last 12 months)
Hours 76 Hours
Hours in this airplane (or identical model) 5 Hours
Normal Landings 6
Crosswind landings 1 Step 3(b): Enter values for performance.
Night hours 0 Experience & Comfort Level Assessment
Night landings 0 Performance Factors
Hours flown in high density altitude Make/
SE ME
Hours flown in mountainous terrain Model
0
Performance
IFR hours 0
IMC hours (actual conditions) 0 Shortest runway 4000ft
Approaches (actual or simulated) 0 Highest terrain 10000 ft
Time with specific GPS navigator 0
Highest density altitude
Time with specific autopilot 0

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