Mxsmanic wrote:
Tim writes:


If you don't know you shouldn;t be filing IFR. Period. You can get
someone (including yourself killed.)


If you know, you should explain the answer here. If you don't, why bother
with the melodramatic lecture?

I'll assume that you don't know, and apparently nobody else here knows and
nobody can be bothered to look it up.

This situation is explicitly covered by FAR 91.185 in the United States, which
reads as follows:

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I know the answer. My point is that a pilot should not get anywhere
near an IFR flight plan if he/she doesn't know the answer to that
question. I am not being melodramatic. It can get you killed. You
NEED to know that stuff.


The fact that the person did not even look it up and instead came to a
newsgroup for an answer is also a problem.

Your assumption tht those who don't post the answer don't know the
answer is ridiculous.

Spoon feeding pilots who are dangerous and ignorant is a sure way to
disaster.

In your little world of games, icing, lost comms, etc don't happen, and
when they do no one dies. In the real world pilots like these can kill
themselves and others. I don't want them flying around when I am up
there flying around.