"Mxsmanic" wrote in message
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Neil Gould writes:

That depends on their needs for transportation, no?

Outside the category of meteorologists, the need for transportation is
independent of the weather. Therefore someone who cannot fly in just
about any weather cannot provide reliable transportation.


I just looked up the days annually that were clear, partly cloudy and cloudy
for the nearest city to me I could find at
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/...ccd/clpcdy.txt . In this case
Little Rock Arkansas. Over the last 35 years they've averaged 119 clear, 100
partly cloudy and 147 cloudy. The vast majority of the clear and partly
cloudy would be VFR and a fairly large number of the cloudy days would be
VFR.

Sure there are days that you just can't fly without a IFR rating for that
matter there are days that you can't fly with an IFR rating. But guess what
there are days that I've been on commercial flight that I would have been
better off in a car. But with just a little bit of flexibility a VFR pilot
can and do on a regular basis use GA for reliable transportation.

I'm still better off seeing 4 of my clients tomorrow than I would be driving
and seeing 2 today and 2 the next and having to stay in a hotel on the night
in between.