I had about 42 hours of IFR time when I got my ticket. About 5 of those
hours were actual. Easy to do in New England in the spring when I did
most of my training. No approaches in the soup though, but I did find,
on a night training flight after my IFR ticket, that a good hood (I use
the Hood Lam) coupled with night approaches in a relatively dark area
may as well be actual (with the obvious exception of being able to cheat
over the panel and see the approach lights).

Cecil E. Chapman wrote:
For those of you who have your instrument ticket, how many hours of actual
IMC did you have when you got your ticket.

At approx 40 hours of instrument time I have a 'whopping' .9 hours of ACTUAL
IMC... I sincerely hope I'm going to get to see a lot more before I get my
instrument ticket - which I'm guessing should be around April or May at the
latest.



--
Remove "2PLANES" to reply.