"David B. Cole" wrote:
While this flight was certainly a good confidence booster,
I realize that flying IMC is a dangerous venture, especially
for someone at my experience level.

That was the exact effect my first time flying an approach alone in actual
IMC had on me. You realize that you're in a real, no-kidding, life-or-death
situation and the outcome is entirely up to you. Of course, this is also
true of crossing the street, but in instrument flying you have have a lot
more on the ball to avoid the "or death" option.

That's why I still fly
with my instructor every two months or so.

Hope you're better at keeping that resolution than most pilots (including
me) are.
--
Dan
C-172RG at BFM