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Here goes nothing....another attempt to attach an image of the first 12 miles.

Vanai and Al and Ken gave good IFR....why don' t all have pilots have IFR.

Mine is another different reason. I am VFR. I began flying with my father when I was about 12. He was a pilot on a C-47, WWII in Eurpoe.

I'm not sure why but he never got or requested an instrument rating with his private certificate. After I got to know a little more about flying I asked him why he was not instrument rated. His reply has always stuck. My dad's reply..."I'm a fair weather pilot and would not use IFR enough to stay current with it. No doubt some day I would be temted to file IFR just to take off from an airport that had a low ceiling but the weather at 3,000 is just blue sky. He made a few comments about flying in IFR in Europe and said IFR is for guys that are going to use it all the time.

I have taken a great deal of additional training in IFR just to assist in an emergency and hopefully to avoid vertigo if I ever get caught in bad weather, but I'm a fair weather pilot.

I would not go flying with another IFR pilot where the flight was taking us into significant instrument weather.

For all you non pilots this is the best information I could probably ever share with you, because this is where more people become fatalaties than any other in general aviation. Usually more that 80% of all GA fatalaties each year result from flying in or into IFR conditions.

If a friend asks you to go flying, dont be afraid to take a look at the weather on your own computer if you are fying to another destination, or the local weather conditions if you are just siteseeing. Even better you can get a feel for high presure and low pressure areas converging and a lot more on google search. Everyone has heard of a weather front. They are easy to understand and well worth the time to investigate. I won't give you the reason, go look and see.

In addition, ask him how much instrument flying he has logged in the last ninety day, and how LONG he has been instrument rated.

I have flown in some terrible instrument weather and it can scare the pants of the best IFR pilots. In addition, there should really be two IFR pilots on these types of flights.

There is a term in general aviation called hanger talk. It would not take much of this to convince you to also take my dads advise.

Be a Fair Weather Passenger....

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Edited by no_stranger (01/25/08 01:16 PM)

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