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Judah,

But I don't even think there's all that much
difference between flying through soup at 3000' when the top of the
white stuff outside your window is light by the sun or the moon.


The statistics (as interpreted over and over again by Richard Collins)
are violently against your statement...


Yes, Richard Collins continually shows us the statistical prejudice
against night flight - even VFR, but particularly IFR - and makes it
clear that if we were to fly more hours at night we would have many more
accidents - often fatal ones too. Yet he flies IFR at night - even hard
IFR routinely, so he must feel that, with experience, it is safe to do
alone.

OK - the guy has a few hours under his belt :-)