[zmiller4]

Originally Posted by meritflyer

Reading some good interview questions and thought I'd write some of them out and hash 'em out with ya'll

Cool. I'm sitting reserve on Thanksgiving, thanks for keeping me occupied! I'll give the answers from my company's opspecs, although it varies among operators.

1) Taxi out, RVR is 600, can we take off? Why/Why not?

Maybe. If the airport has at least standard takeoff mins, there is a set of qualifications that must be met for us to do 600 RVR takeoffs. There's got to be at least RCLM and centerline lighting. We have to have at least touchdown and rollout RVR systems, both of which must be reporting at least 600RVR. If the runway has three RVR's, all have to be reporting at least 600RVR. If one of the three is inop, the other two have to be at least 600RVR.

2) On taxi out, the touchdown zone RVR goes out. Can we take off?

Potentially. We can substitute mid for touchdown if certain RVR conditions are met.

3) RVR is 2000, tower reports 600 RVR, rollout is inop, can you land?

Where are you? I'm assuming you're planning on a cat II approach. Outside the FAF, you're screwed (unless your opspecs let you go down to 600RVR, which would be Cat III, but I can't imagine TDZ RVR would not be required for cat III because it is for II). If you're inside the FAF, you can continue the approach, but if you want to land you'd better be extremely sure that you can prove the visibility was minimums for the approach or above.

4) On the approach, glideslope goes inop. What do you do?

Go missed unless the ceiling's really high, the visibility's good and you've already gone visual. It would suck to have to be trying to re-brief an approach well after you've started.

5) Center tells you to cross XYZ VOR at 15,000'. You're 20 miles out and notice the crossing restriction is 10,000'. What do you do?

Do you mean like on an arrival, the chart lists a crossing restriction of something and ATC gives you something else? I'd comply with what they tell you; cross the VOR at 15000. If that's going to screw you for an approach or something down the road, ask them for lower, but I'd do what they tell me.