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Touchdown! Greaser!
woo hoo!
GREAT things come to those with perserverence I
GREAT things come to those with perserverence I
Filing IFR on a trip in VMC is a good way to get more comfortable "in the system". OTOH, there will be many days when there's a fairly thin (e.g. 2000 ft thick) ice free stratus layer with low tops if you can stay away from open water.Thanks everyone!!!
Lance, who knows? It's winter... not too many opportunities to get the ticket really wet safely. I'm sure I'll file the next XC I do on a CAVU day though.
Congrats on your succesful checkride!
In your proposed scenario, I would have taken the straight in over the NoN precision.
Knowing your plane and having the ability to make a much tighter pattern than the minimum vis and ceiling for a CTL is a MUST. That makes the ctl an easy affair.
However, at night if the weather was close to mins for a CTL i'd choose not to attempt it and either land with the tailwind or go elsewhere.
My answer would have been - daytime, take the precision approach and circle. Night, either land with the tailwind or go somewhere else.
Thoughts?
Yes I believe that's true, and those are my thoughts exactly.I don't know from personal experience, but have read the Michigan and the area around the great lakes has some of the worst icing in the country. I wouldn't want to push my luck too much . Be careful.
I missed Ren's post before... no, the ceilings in the DPE's scenario were too low for circling from the ILS.
The weather gods definitely have an ironic nature. If your airplane was FIKI ready, and your schedule suggested a trip, there would be freezing precip in the forecast and pireps of severe icing.This is a first for me, looking outside and at the forecasts, seeing BAD weather, and wishing I could be in the air. This afternoon there will be a window where the ceilings are around 700-800 feet, no precip, and no chance of icing below about 8000 MSL. Sadly, I have to work. Drat.
My checkride was Jan. 7.Awesome! How long did it take? I can't wait for mine to come and it's only been a week.
I returned yesterday from a dinner trip to KAZO (filed IFR, of course!) to find an envelope in my mailbox marked "Official Business Only". Inside was a green and white card with a picture of two guys on the back, my name and vital stats, and the words "INSTRUMENT AIRPLANE".
So my Temporary Airman's Certificate is void. Feels almost like I've been booted out of the League <sniff>. Then again, we're every one of us a Temporary Airman. :wink2: