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Old March 2nd 07, 07:48 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
Don Poitras
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Default IFR just 5.4% of the time

Mxsmanic wrote:
Don Poitras writes:


If it's dark enough that you can't see much outside, then it _is_ IMC.


Nighttime isn't a meteorological condition. That's why you don't see
nighttime indicators in METARs. The key point is that you don't see much,
which allows you to fly IFR. I suppose that if you look out the window you
might see something, but you have to look, whereas during the day, the scenery
outside is hard to ignore.


You don't have to _look_, you just have to _see_. Unless you're under the hood,
you're going to see outside. And in fact, under VMC unless you have a safety
pilot, you are _required_ to look outside.

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Don Poitras