Title: Minimum Safe Altitudes - Severe VFR - Flying Made Easy
Headings: Minimum Safe Altitudes
Minimum Safe Altitudes
Regulations | September 24, 2020 | By: Severe VFR
At Anytime
Congested Vs. Non-Congested
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Takeoff And Landing

Content: Other pattern operations can include practice approaches, repeated touch and goes, stop and goes, and low approaches. The NTSB has also applied these exceptions to touch and go landings and other practice maneuvers such as simulated landings. The NTSB reasons that these practice maneuvers are exceptions to the rule because their purpose is to improve a pilot's capabilities. Any other operations outside the traffic pattern must operate per part 91.119. Pilots have been found to be in violation of part 91.119 for not following a "reasonable departure procedure." Such a case can be found where a pilot was circling homes half a mile from an airport at 100ft to verify the aircraft was functioning normally. It is still best practice to remember the FAA does consider low flying aircraft violations on a case-by-case basis. It is not recommended to use past cases to determine if an operation is legal.