IFR just 5.4% of the time

On 2/28/2007 2:16:48 PM, "Jim B" wrote:

Interesting side note: My last long cross country trip departed Feb 10 KSTE
(Wisconsin) -KEYW (Key West, FL) Depart KEYW Feb 16 - KSTE 19 hours
hobbs, 1 hour actual IFR = 5.26% IFR. However there were IFR days before,
during, and after.

In contrast, my last long IFR flight was the second week of January this
year, from Buffalo, NY, to Miami, FL, for a business meeting on a Thursday
and back again the following Saturday. About 15 hours total time. The first
day I was actual IMC for the entire first leg of 3.5 hours, with an approach
to minimums at my fuel stop in Tennessee (thanks to a nasty storm off to the
east over North Carolina), and 2.5 hours of the second leg.

On the return trip I estimate being in IMC probably 2 hours of the total 7
hours. This works out to IMC about 53% of the total trip.

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Peter