Deborah Biles, Administratrix of the Estate of Dennis B. Biles, Plaintiff v. United States

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• finding no duty on the part of the ATC because she did not know about the dangerous weather conditions 15 miles away or that minimum VFR conditions were insufficient
• finding no duty on the part of the ATC because she did not know about the dangerous weather conditions 15 miles away or that minimum VFR conditions were insufficient
• no obligation for controller to warn pilot when controller had no reason to believe pilot was not in VFR conditions
• “[A] pilot operating in VFR conditions is authorized to fly fairly close to the ground and can often be below the elevation of nearby terrain. [The air traffic controller] was entitled to assume that if the pilot was flying according to VFR standards, visibility had probably improved”

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