"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
news:CGU3d.79848$MQ5.5765@attbi_s52...
But, despite your barb on the instrument pilot, you have to remember
that
you are only half a pilot without the instrument rating.

Hrm. I would strongly disagree with that.

Don't worry, Dylan -- he always likes to throw that "I'm an instrument
rated
pilot" around, like it's some sort of badge of courage.



I don't know why you assume that. Actually, I do not have an instrument
rating.

However, that does not change the fact that most cross country flights,
especially into high density areas, are safer and vastly easier on an
instrument flight plan. If you are too busy to provide the safety net that
the IR provides at least your wife should have one.

Send me your FBO's email address. I'll Paypal them the funds for Mary's
first IR lesson.

I've safely flown from one end of this country to the other, for almost ten
years, VFR.

Dream on! By your own admission you haven't. Your own recent posting about
scud running with your wife and family vividly points that out.

I have a friend who thought a lot like you and owned a Cessna 185, very much
like my own. I can just see the two of you talking about how to scud run a
certain route.

http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/brief.asp?e...26X01293&key=1

This accident is now the focal point of the "Wings" program around here.
It's a case of compounded poor judgment.

You further naively insinuate that all instrument flying equates to
hazardous weather flying. I can't think of a single instrument flight I've
ever taken in a light aircraft (other than during my training with a mad
man) that involved any kind of hazardous weather.

Karl