wrote in message
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safe. In the 30 years or so since I got my instrument ticket, I can
recall
only one trip I couldn't complete due to weather. (Some delays, but only
once did I have to find an alternative ride home. That one was due to
widespread moderate to severe icing.)

That depends on what airplane you fly, where you fly, and what you consider
to be a delay.

If you try flying on a winter vacation from Pennsylvania to Florida in
January in a non-known-ice airplane, you could easily be delayed 3 days each
way.

If you try flying in the Northeast on Thanksgiving - a transition time when
you can experience thunderstorms, icing, thundersnow, or any combination --
you can easily be delayed by a couple of days in any piston airplane,
especially one without icing equipment and without weather detection
equipment.

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Richard Kaplan, CFII

www.flyimc.com