Night VFR following highways
On Feb 1, 2:34*pm, wrote:
On Feb 1, 12:28 pm, Mxsmanic wrote:
Is it a bad idea to fly VFR at night
Yes.
If you actually flew, then you'd know that the Bogeyman comes out at
night... and he makes your engine run rough for no good reason at all,
and will let you fly right smack into a cloud without being able to
see it in front of you, and play tricks on your eyes when you are
descending on short final, and all kinds of other Bad Stuff (tm).
Now having said that, I've flown a lot at night, single engine, vfr,
and I'm still alive after doing it regularly for ten years. In real
airplanes too. I think the Bogeyman might be scared of me. But I do
try to stay in gliding distance of a highway wherever possible. If the
Bogeyman does hop onto my wing at night like a bad Twilight Zone
episode with William Shatner, , I'd rather take my chances on a dead
stick landing with the wires crossing the road and the cars, than the
unseeable terrain in the dark. *And yes, I'll leave the landing light
on for the duration.
Unless you don't like what you see toward the end, then just turn it
off...
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