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Spook, In the course of getting your private license, you will have the opportunity to fly several hours under the hood (at least we did 30 years ago). While I don't have a problem with IFR ratings, I think most folks would be better served to not fly in the soup. Undoubtedly Jim knew the potential was there for IFR conditions. At least had he checked the weather forecasts carefully he would have known. At that point, a VFR pilot should have passed on the flight. Many's the IFR pilot who's gone down when conditions exceeded his ability, or the ability of the aircraft. There's much to be said for being a VFR pilot who can carefully pick his weather. My instructor, who had 10,000 hours, many of them IFR, always said that if you are a pilot, and you have to go somewhere, and you have to get there on time, Drive or fly commercially. Larry Georgia Trehey wrote: > ----[Please read http://ercoupers.com/disclaimer.htm before following any advice in this forum.]---- > > Howdy Folks, > > I'll write a more detailed message about this later, but for right now > I'll just say that I had quite an adventure yesterday. I went for what > was intended to be about an hour's flight yesterday with Jim, our flying > club's A&P. > > Wow, weather can surprise you and change rapidly. In a not very long span > of time it changed from sorta thin and thinly scattered clouds to a solid > blanket which spread vertically and horizontally so fast. It's a good > thing that Jim is IFR. Most of the ILS (15 miles) approach was in the > clouds. Spooky! I learned a lot and I am now convinced that I want to > take IFR lessons too. If I had been by myself I think I would have been > screwed. All of our local airports were socked in. I think I would have > headed east for Redding, which in talking to Jim afterwards, is what I > probably should have done with no IFR training. At one point, Jim thought > he was going to have to go to Redding as the clouds/fog were almost down > to the ground. > > I wasn't happy the whole time but I am glad to have had this experience > with a pilot who knows what he's doing. Nevertheless, until we landed, we > were both pretty pumped with adrenaline and I couldn't sleep very well > last night. > > Details in full account to come. > > Nope, I'm not discouraged. I learned some valuable lessons yesterday and I > can hardly wait to go flying again although I'm not real hot on the solid > cloud blanket routine, especially when it's approx. 4000' high! :-) > > Spook > > > __________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe from this list please send mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ___________________________________________________________ > T O P I C A http://www.topica.com/t/17 > Newsletters, Tips and Discussions on Your Favorite Topics __________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from this list please send mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___________________________________________________________ T O P I C A http://www.topica.com/t/17 Newsletters, Tips and Discussions on Your Favorite Topics
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