F111 & 3 152's

[nigel99 501]

Popsjumper taught me this little reminder.

As it is so easy to remember I thought I would post it.

Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

[voilsb 1]

And to explain for everybody who reads this and doesn't already know what they mean:

They're mnemonics for cloud clearance requirements in the United States

F111-
Five Miles visibility
One thousand feet above
One thousand feet below
One mile horizontal

C152-
C sounds like 3
Three Miles visibility
One thousand feet above
Five hundred feet below
Two thousand feet horizontal

Brian

[LongWayToFall 0]

And these are for above, and below 10,000ft correct?

[JohnRich 4]

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And these are for above, and below 10,000ft correct?

F111 is for above.
C152 is for below.

But don't go throwing a complexity into the situation that makes it too difficult to memorize...

That's a neat trick to remember 'em!

[faulknerwn 38]

Being just near Austin, I tell all my students that its Austin's area code below 10k (512) Works well in this area :-)

[LongWayToFall 0]

I agree. The way I heard this trick is to imagine 5 F111s flying above 10k, and 3 152s below 10k.