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Gads! Again I must agree with Larry. I'd better go see my doctor and find
out what my problem is. <g>
Georgia, what Larry said is also called "Common Sense".
Bob
Larry wrote:
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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:
>
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> >
> > 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
> >
> >
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