"OtisWinslow" wrote in message
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"Ron McKinnon" wrote in message
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How on earth could you be an Instrument rated Pilot, or even a
non-instrument rated pilot for that matter, and be 'pretty ignorant
of weather' ???

Why on earth would you criticize someone for admitting that their
weather knowledge was less than they'd like? You can get an IR
without ever flying in a cloud. The knowledge needed for the
written certainly doesn't require that high of a level of understanding.

In point of fact it would be a criticism regarding the fact of their
lack of knowledge, not for their admission of it.

But it was in any case not a criticism. It was an expression of a
query; A conundrum. (Some degree of weather knowledge is
in most places a requirement for the Private licence/certificate,
and, considering what's at stake, I'd think a pilot'd would have
acquired more than the bare minimum knowledge by the time
they've got an IR. Apparently not.)