In a control zone a VFR flight may obtain a clearance from air traffic control to operate as Special VFR.

In most if not all countries of the world, VFR pilots also have an option for requesting Special VFR when meteorological conditions at an airport are below normal VMC minima, but above Special VFR requirements.

Air Traffic Control may also issue a Special VFR clearance to VFR aircraft, to allow departure from a control zone in less than VMC-this reduces the visibility minimum to 1, 600m.

For VFR flights, their only purpose is to provide needed information should search and rescue operations be required, or for use by air traffic control when flying in a " Special Flight Rules Area ".

* When flying an airplane under Special VFR at night ( helicopters are excepted from the regulation.

Special visual flight rules ( Special VFR, SVFR ) are a set of aviation regulations under which a pilot may operate an aircraft.

ICAO Definition of Special VFR ( Ref Annex 2 ) Special VFR flight is a VFR flight cleared by air traffic control to operate within a control zone in meteorological conditions below VMC.

Although there are seven other types of annual awards presented by the Academy ( the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award, the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, the Gordon E. Sawyer Award, the Scientific and Engineering Award, the Technical Achievement Award, the John A. Bonner Medal of Commendation, and the Student Academy Award ) plus two awards that are not presented annually ( the Special Achievement Award in the form of an Oscar statuette and the Honorary Award that may or may not be in the form of an Oscar statuette ), the best known one is the Academy Award of Merit more popularly known as the Oscar statuette.

The classic example, considered by their American counterparts quite curious, was the maintenance of the internal comma in a British organisation of secret agents called the " Special Operations, Executive " — " S. O., E " — which is not found in histories written after about 1960.

ACM is organized into over 170 local chapters and 35 Special Interest Groups ( SIGs ), through which it conducts most of its activities.

Bluetooth is managed by the Bluetooth Special Interest Group, which has more than 16, 000 member companies in the areas of telecommunication, computing, networking, and consumer electronics.

The Bluetooth Innovation World Cup, a marketing initiative of the Bluetooth Special Interest Group ( SIG ), is an international competition encouraging the development of innovations for applications leveraging the Bluetooth low energy wireless technology in sports, fitness and health care products.

The Bluetooth Special Interest Group ( SIG ) is the body that oversees the development of Bluetooth standards and the licensing of the Bluetooth technologies and trademarks to manufacturers.

Ballochbuie is also protected as a Special Area of Conservation by the EU Habitats Directive, as " one of the largest remaining continuous areas of native Caledonian Forest ".

There is also a special 64-page book available, The Beano Special Collectors Edition: 70 Years of Fun, giving a brief history of the comic.

The Maroon beret is a symbol of the South African Special Forces Brigade and the South African 44 Parachute Regiment.

* In the movie Wag the Dog, the fictitious unit 303 Special Forces has a song created titled " The Men of the 303 " that is played to a deliberately similar but original tune written by Huey Lewis for the film.

* Ivan, one of the protagonists of the historical novel by the Cuban writer Leonardo Padura Fuentes, El hombre que amaba a los perros ( The Man Who Loved Dogs ), is the editor of a university journal of veterinary medicine, who manages to make a living during the Special Period in Cuba by helping people take care of their dogs.

Basic English 2000 word list and VOA Special English 1500 word list is a dictionary for Simple English Wikipedia.

; Dependencies and Areas of Special Sovereignty: This category is a list of places affiliated with another country.

The BSA is inspired by the French Special Forces.

A Special Operation Unit is being created and is going to be attached to the marine brigade.

Outside the Fuerza Pública, there is a small Special Forces Unit, the Unidad Especial de Intervencion ( UEI ) or Special Intervention Unit, which trains with special forces of Israel, and its namesake in Spain and other democratic nations, but is not part of the main police forces.

Agriculture is dealt with separately by the Special Committee on Agriculture ( SCA ).

Special variants called aircraft catapults are used to launch planes from land bases and sea carriers when the takeoff runway is too short for a powered takeoff or simply impractical to extend.

Usually it is considered to include several sub-departments: the Art Department proper, with its Art Director, Set Designers and Draughtsmen ; Set Decoration, under the Set Decorator ; Props, under the Propmaster ; Construction, headed by the Construction Coordinator ; Scenic, headed by the Key Scenic Artist ; and Special Effects.

The Special Programme for Food Security is FAO's flagship initiative for reaching the goal of halving the number of hungry in the world by 2015 ( currently estimated at close to 1 billion people ), as part of its commitment to the Millennium Development Goals.

It is also where new agents are sent for training to become FBI Special Agents.

Special effects and camera tricks also allow producers to make the ghost disappear and reappear, highlighting the fact that only Macbeth can see it.

Special education was only provided to people with severe disabilities in its early years, but more recently it has been opened to anyone who has experienced difficulty learning.

Canadian fans could choose from the Special Christmas Edition of Amarantine or an EP entitled Christmas Secrets, which contained only the four new songs.

A 44 Special loaded with a minimum load of AA # 2 uses only 4. 2 grains ( 0. 27 g ) of powder, and produces a modest 771 ft / s ( 235 m / s ).

He joined Dennis Haysbert as the only two actors ever to have been credited with the " Special Guest Appearance " card on 24.

Produced only for the North American market, the Special Vehicles Division of Land Rover created only 250 of these bright yellow SUV's.

The 1, 500-member Special Mobile Force ( SMF ) and the 500-member National Coast Guard are the only two paramilitary units in Mauritius.

* Heckler & Koch MP5 only used by the 5th Special Forces Regiment

Womack initially only wants Mason to consult the SEALs, as he confides to Special Agent Ernest Paxton ( William Forsythe ) that he does not want Mason loose, but the FBI have no choice but to let Mason accompany the SEALs since he has committed the maps to memory.

Special relativity does not claim that all observers are equivalent, only that all observers at rest in inertial reference frames are equivalent.

Unlocked tracks ( Special and Extra Cups ) are only available at the speed they were unlocked with.

* In 1998, he was only the second person to be awarded the Grand Cross in Special Design of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, the other being Konrad Adenauer.

The character appeared on television several weeks later, animated by Nelvana Studios for The Star Wars Holiday Special ( 1978 ) as a mysterious figure who betrays Luke Skywalker ( voiced by Mark Hamill ) after saving him, Chewbacca, C-3PO ( voiced by Anthony Daniels ), and R2-D2 from a giant monster, only to be revealed as a bounty hunter working for Darth Vader.

On the commentary track of the 2004 " 2 Disc Special Edition " DVD for the film Monty Python's The Meaning of Life, Terry Jones stated that to his knowledge Ireland had banned only four movies, three of which he had directed: The Meaning of Life, Monty Python's Life of Brian and Personal Services.

Daniels also played C-3PO in the live-action segments of The Star Wars Holiday Special, while only voicing the character in the animated portion.

| National Institute for Communicable Diseases of Special Pathogens Unit is one of only two BSL-4 facilities in Africa but the only suit laboratory on the continent.

During her public trials at the " Special Court ", Jiang Qing was the only member of the Gang of Four who bothered to argue on her behalf.

The crisis group, referred to as the Special Situation Group ( SSG ) received a formal charter on December 14, 1981, but in fact only met once.

" Justin Calvert of GameSpot noted that " the Special Edition looks much better and is the only way to play if you want to hear ... what characters are saying, whereas the original game's interface is less clunky.

Of the four New Jersey villages only Loch Arbour retains the village form of government, while Ridgewood operates under the Council-Manager form and the Township of South Orange Village operates under a Special Charter form with many characteristics of village government.

The facilities were renamed the Washington State Reformatory Unit ( WSRU ), Twin Rivers Unit ( providing the state's only male sex-offender treatment program in the prison system ), Special Offender Unit ( for mental health treatment ) and the Minimum-Security Unit retained its name.