Fred Choate wrote:
I guess my previous post was silly....of course you purposely plan them for
night, but what I am getting at, is do you compare the route to a daytime
flight and do you decide to fly at night for any particular reason...


Yeah, to get somewhere after working all day, I'd fly at night. Since I do
radio navigation primarily, I don't really care if it's day or night. I've even
flown over water extensively at night in a single. The airplane doesn't know
what it's flying over.

There is a certain amount of truth to the old advice of what to do if you lose
an engine at night: set up best glide, then when you think you're getting close
to the surface, turn on your landing light. If you like what you see, go ahead
and land. If you don't like what you see, turn off the light.

As for fuel, if you're worried about it, you don't have enough.




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Mortimer Schnerd, RN

VE