"Bob Fry" wrote:

Yes, plus, YE flights are always day, VFR, and local (no weather
to
run into on a cross-country).

Considerations are narrower than that for our chapter. One
Saturday, we had to turn away everybody, due to marginal weather on
viz. Almost IFR. Come tomorrow on the announced rain date;
forecast good.

Many did, but it turned up delay again until it was 1,300 broken
and clear on the viz. We tried it for a while, but told the ground
bosses this is not good. We're up there at pattern altitude flying
the hastily modified route, to avoid somebody arriving IFR to pop
out the bottom at our field or at a nearby field's ILS. Those few
of us who can with a BOTH button, monitoring unicom and also the
satellite field Approach freq for IFR arrivals. We're not enjoying
this. Many disappointed kids again, but you can't explain why in
simple terms to parents, w/o talking scary-sounding safety issues.
We took names/phone #s to individually fly kids ad hoc on a
selected, great summer evening. The parents really appreciated
that. And most had no idea we recreational flyers treat this stuff
as seriously as the people who pilot their 757s.

Fred F.