M wrote:
Congrats!

Now remember, IFR in a light plane can only really safely go in about
20% of the instrument weather mother nature can throw at you.

However, an instrument rated pilot can go in about 40% of the VFR
weather that would have been too risky for a VFR-only pilot to attempt,
due to the the risk of weather closing in being too great.

Therefore paradoxically, by getting an instrument rating you will find
yourself flying a lot more VFR than you had before :-)


Margy Natalie wrote:

As of this morning Ron Natalie is an instrument rated pilot!! I guess
all those impromptu extra vacation days due to haze are over :-). This
is great!

Margy


We tend to spend lots of time in the mountains of WVA (often when other
folks are plowing through VFR) not sure if the haze, clouds, mountains
and us will all meet at the same time. We tend to be on the fairly
conservative side although the XM weather makes some decisions easier
then they were before. Of course sometimes it paints up all sorts of
stuff we would never have imagined was out there before :-). We spent
an entire day at our home airport this summer waiting to go to OSH
because it was 700 broken and 1.5 miles. EVERY other airport within 20
miles was reporting CAVU. That really was not a good day!

Margy