Jay Honeck must get an instrument rating

Children are a byproduct.

Actually, when you get right down to it, children are the reason.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Children are a byproduct.

Actually, when you get right down to it, children are the reason.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

3. Instrument Flying Sucks. This is something I've rarely seen
discussed here (maybe never?), but instrument flying is one of the most
boring things I've done.

I just have to comment on this. I think most VFR flying is incredibly
boring. In the clouds? I love it. I love having to pay attention
every second. I love talking to ATC. Call me strange, but I don't
think it's boring at all.

Well, okay -- "boring" may be the wrong term for instrument flight.
How about "long periods of monotony (hopefully) broken by short periods
of fulfillment"?

;-)
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Children are a byproduct.

No, children are a =product= of their upbringing (among other things).
That children are a byproduct is beef byproducts.

Jose
--
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it keeps its brain." (chapter 10 of book 3 - Harry Potter).
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playing "games" like trying to hold altitude
within 10', setting the GPS on the most sensistive course deviation
setting and then trying to keep the needle center, etc., all keep me
engaged.

Wow.

Matt, that sounds really, um, fascina....ZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...

;-)
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

In any case, you still are going to be heckled.

Bob, I would expect no less from this group....

:-)
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

The thing that prompted me to get my rating was flying to Ithaca in
glorious VMC, and then getting stuck there for several days. I
eventually tried to go out VFR under a low ceiling, but halfway back I
had to divert and spend the night in the airline terminal at Wilkes-Barre.

It only takes once.

See, that's where flying as a family is totally different.

We had a similar experience, trying to get to Sun N Fun '04. Low
ceilings, low visibility, rain over Tennessee. We landed just south of
Nashville, when we couldn't safely go on -- and were stuck there for
three days, when it turned into freezing rain.

We had the time of our lives! Our time spent in Nashville has receded
into "Honeck Family Lore" as one of our best vacations, ever -- and we
had no intention of ever going there.

Could we have proceeded IFR, with the rating? Certainly, before the
temperatures dropped. But then we would have missed out on one of our
very favorite accidental vacation memories.

It's not the destination, it's the journey.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Jose wrote:

Instrument flying in light airplanes appeals to daredevil technogeeks,
and damn few others.

I don't think that's a fair or true statement.

Whoa. I don't know wrote that initially (Jay?), but it's horribly
unfair. I'm one of the most cautious people you'll EVER meet, and
instrument flying, done properly, is NOT unsafe. Pilots makes it
unsafe. To say that those of who who fly IFR in light airplanes are
daredevils to a great disservice, and plays right into the hands of
those who think GA is dangerous, period.

(Hmmm...maybe skyloon wrote the initial comment?)

Ron Lee wrote:
Emily wrote:

Ron Lee wrote:
Emily wrote:

Hehehe...I used that line on a student once and his response was, "I've
flown in the clouds before and lived, so what's wrong with not having
one?" Got rid of that one real quick. Who needs that kind of liability?

Man, that's why I don't have kids.
Hmmm. No kids. A pilot. This could be love.

Ron Lee

I think I pointed that out a while ago!

(maybe not to you)

Ouch!

Ron Lee


That was a good thing!

Damn, if I could only find a pilot who was ok with no kids for a very
long while...

See, that's where flying as a family is totally different.

...[we] were stuck [south of Nashville] for
three days, when it turned into freezing rain.
We had the time of our lives!

Well, you got Nashville, and I got Scranton. Seriously, even travelling
with a family, it could have gone the other way. All you need is an
exhausted and cranky kid starting to come down with a cold.

Jose
--
"Never trust anything that can think for itself, if you can't see where
it keeps its brain." (chapter 10 of book 3 - Harry Potter).
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