Question about to rules VFR

santigopez

I have a question about to rules to VFR, rules to vfr is more that 1500 ft and 9999 visibility, but on some app, the metar is ciling few 009 and 9000 visibility -RA and appear available to vfr ? Why is wrong information or what? Thank u

Gkikas LGPZ

@santigopez
Cloud cover FEW009 is not ceiling at 900ft. FEW means 1-2 Octas.
Ceiling is the height of the lowest layer of cloud covering more than half the sky.
Ceiling is referred to broken (BKN 5-7 Octas) or overcast (OVC 8 Octas) amount of clouds.
Typical visibility requirement for VFR is 5 km if you fly up to FL100.

The exact requirements vary by type of airspace,
whether it is day or night (for countries that permit night VFR),
and from country to country.

For VMC minima: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_meteorological_conditions