Question to the IFR Pilots Out There

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.

I just finished my checkride about 6 weeks ago. At the time, I
went out of my way to choose my cross-countries with the instructor to
where it was "perfect IFR training" weather.... 3000-5000' AGL scattered
stuff. In the end, did most of my two cross-countries in actual with the
instructor. He also had me do 1.4 hours of actual for my private a year
earlier. At the time of the checkride:

Actual: 9.3
Simulated: 32
X-C: 115
Total: 250

Since the ticked, did two trips IFR. One trip enroute IMC for
about 1 hour, VMC departure and destination. Second departed IFR 1000'
from Milwaukee, got to almost VMC by Indiana (2 hours later after stinkin'
Chicago reroute) to shoot SCT 1500'/5mi.

Still not overly confident (especially because of ice this time of
year). I feel I could definately do a bit lower/harder, but certainly not
going to head out into it intentionally.

FWIW
-Cory
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