Most flights from Europe to the US are daylight flights, meaning they depart in the morning and fly in sunlight all day.
By this time, he had made 434 flights in eight different types of aircraft and had accumulated 112 hours and 48 minutes flying time, mostly in daylight flights, in single engine training aircraft.
Daylight robbery Time is too precious to squander on unsatisfying travel – as I discovered on the only occasion I took a daytime flight from North America to Britain.
Transport costs were kept to a minimum by making use of spare seats on routine aircraft flights and occasionally using the team pilot with chartered planes Great flexibility was required to allow for lack of daylight flying hours, cyclone warnings and other adverse weather conditions.
Due to lack of runway lights, flights could only be done during daylight, thus hindering flights during parts of December and January, when the sun never rises.
According to the Wall Street Journal, the FAA was going to limit flights to daylight hours (likely half an hour before and after what the FAA calls "civil twilight") and to flights under 400 feet and within the operator's sight.
Jetstar has assessed the risk posed by a volcanic ash cloud near Denpasar airport and deemed it safe to resume flights in daylight hours.
But that it should only allow flights during daylight hours to protect local residents.
The proposed rules, which apply to drones that weigh less than 55 pounds, will restrict commercial drone operators to flights during daylight hours and to heights under 500 feet.
Later, a flight made in daylight cost the Axis 16 or 17 Me 323 transports destroyed, plus a Macchi C.202, three German fighters and a Re-2001, when they were intercepted by 36 Australian, British and South African P-40s covered by South African, British and Polish Spitfire units.
