Matt Whiting wrote:
Then again, it may! I flew my niece back to college one day (from ELM
to SGH) when the entire east coast was socked in. The ceilings were
300-600 feet the entire trip which took nearly 4 hours on the way out
and 2.5 on the way back. And the clouds were solid to 20,000 feet. I
flew out at 8,000 if memory serves and back at 7,000 and I could barely
see the wingtips the entire flight. It was smooth as silk however. An
easy IFR flight that would have not been possible VFR. The alternative
was 9 hours of driving...


Back when I was flying cancelled checks, I used to take off every morning into a
low overcast from CLT (Monday through Friday), then cruise through a broken
layer to RDU, followed by an ILS to minimums. The crud would burn off later in
the morning/ This went on for several days at a time through the late summer
and early fall. Couldn't have done it VFR.

It was more exciting in the winter but I only left an airplane in place twice.
And this was flying either a Lance or a Geronimo converted Apache.



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Mortimer Schnerd, RN
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