Wouldn't seeing the airport be a matter of visually clearing the
Papoose Rnage? I'd have to do the math, but at 15k for the plane, 8k
for the mountain and 4.5k for the airport, I think it would be visible
from near 95.

Lumpy wrote:

miso@sushi.com wrote:

On approach to SFO (San Francisco Oakland), if the pilot says he can
see the bridge (San Mateo I presume) and the airport, the pilot can
change to a visual approach. It might be the same for Groom. The
pilots going to SFO have a stock line, something like "I have the
bridge and airport in sight."

That's what I've typically seen/heard in air comms.
Runway in sight means literally "can see the runway".
I'm confused, in the case of this Sting xmission,
that he was apparently over Mercury or so, or
wherever PLANET is, and says "in sight".


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