IFR just 5.4% of the time

Thomas Borchert wrote:

Robert,


I've only had to cancel a very small number of trips because the IFR
was not duable (usually ice). However, I've had lots of trips that
would have been canceled VFR but 0.1 hours of IFR made the trip work.



Exactly. Plus, you just don't have to fret weather decisions as much.
All this doesn't mean at all you're flying in clouds for hours or
approaches to the minimums.


Then again, it may! I flew my niece back to college one day (from ELM
to SGH) when the entire east coast was socked in. The ceilings were
300-600 feet the entire trip which took nearly 4 hours on the way out
and 2.5 on the way back. And the clouds were solid to 20,000 feet. I
flew out at 8,000 if memory serves and back at 7,000 and I could barely
see the wingtips the entire flight. It was smooth as silk however. An
easy IFR flight that would have not been possible VFR. The alternative
was 9 hours of driving...


Matt

Matt,

I
flew out at 8,000 if memory serves and back at 7,000 and I could barely
see the wingtips the entire flight. It was smooth as silk however. An
easy IFR flight that would have not been possible VFR.


Nice!

--
Thomas Borchert (EDDH)

Matt Whiting wrote:
Then again, it may! I flew my niece back to college one day (from ELM
to SGH) when the entire east coast was socked in. The ceilings were
300-600 feet the entire trip which took nearly 4 hours on the way out
and 2.5 on the way back. And the clouds were solid to 20,000 feet. I
flew out at 8,000 if memory serves and back at 7,000 and I could barely
see the wingtips the entire flight. It was smooth as silk however. An
easy IFR flight that would have not been possible VFR. The alternative
was 9 hours of driving...


Back when I was flying cancelled checks, I used to take off every morning into a
low overcast from CLT (Monday through Friday), then cruise through a broken
layer to RDU, followed by an ILS to minimums. The crud would burn off later in
the morning/ This went on for several days at a time through the late summer
and early fall. Couldn't have done it VFR.

It was more exciting in the winter but I only left an airplane in place twice.
And this was flying either a Lance or a Geronimo converted Apache.



--
Mortimer Schnerd, RN
mschnerdatcarolina.rr.com