# Authorization To Use Lower Than Standard Takeoff, Approach and Landing Minimums at Military and Foreign Airports
> **Rule** · Direct final rule; request for comments. · Published 2012-01-11 · Effective 2012-02-27 · 77 FR 1629
## Document
- **Document number:** 2012-356
- **Category:** other
- **Type:** Rule
- **Action:** Direct final rule; request for comments.
- **Citation:** 77 FR 1629
- **Publication date:** 2012-01-11
- **Effective date:** 2012-02-27
- **FAA docket:** Docket No.: FAA-2012-0007
## Abstract

This rulemaking would allow qualified operators to conduct lower than standard instrument flight rules (IFR) airport operations at military airports or outside the United States when authorized to do so by their operations specifications. This action is necessary because the current regulatory section limits certain operators to a takeoff minimum visibility of 1 mile, and a landing minimum visibility of \1/2\ mile when conducting IFR operations at those airports, even when the operator has demonstrated the ability to safely conduct operations in lower visibility. The intended effect of this final rule is to bring the identified regulatory section into alignment with other sections of the regulations that currently permit lower than standard IFR operations at domestic civilian, foreign, and military airports when authorized to do so.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2012/01/11/2012-356/authorization-to-use-lower-than-standard-takeoff-approach-and-landing-minimums-at-military-and)
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