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After all the references here on POA (I searched) to "secondary minimums" being a Jerry Wagner thing, I had an interesting question from a quite newly minted CFI-I that is giving me an IPC. After having me brief the approach plates we were going to use on our IPC flight, he asked me "What are the secondary minimums?" I looked at him blankly for a few seconds then started to explain about differences in minimums if we had to use a neighboring airport's baro setting (raises minimums to 298'-ILS9L KSFB if you want to look it up). He said no, what happens if you can see to ALS but not the runway at the DH? He explained (and showed me the reg, 91.175.3.i) that if you can see the ALS but not the runway you can descend to 100 feet above TDZE. I knew this but had never heard it called "secondary minimums". Is this a new term?
John
John