SixPapaCharlie
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I think it is something I may do later in life.
I agree with the being on top. I have been lucky enough to get on top about 4 times and it is absolutely beautiful and no camera in the world can do it justice.
I work from home as needed and have a lot of flexibility with my current job to reschedule when I am where so if I do get stuck, It wont hurt me from a job perspective. May hurt the wallet (hotel costs) and bored kids but they have it good they deserve to be bored every now and then![Wink ;) ;)](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
Last year we wanted to go to Fredricksburg on Sat Morning. It was supposed to be IFR in Dallas so we left Friday night and flew to Georgetown (cheaper hotel). It was my first long night flight and it was a great experience. We landed and explored G-Town.
In the morning it was IFR we said if it stays this way we will just stay here again, no biggie. Soon it went MVFR I called Gillespie and they said it was VFR and ceilings were rising We did a bit of scud running. Maybe not a good idea but we flew field to field zig zagging to fredricksburg. Suddenly, this massive hole opens up in the clouds and we just flew in circles in this 8-10 mile hole in the clouds up and down and all over. It was beyond beautiful. While we were playing it completely burned off and we went on and had a great time.
This year we were going to go to Austin for a weekend but it was IFR south of here so we flew to Tulsa instead.
I guess the point is we had weather and we worked around it. we are in a position to play it by ear. She runs her own business and I am just lucky I have my flexibility.
I have been telling myself I need to get this IFR rating and I have the king IFR course and I started looking at it and also reading the instrument flying handbook and honestly I just thought that this is not interesting to me at all.
I think my 2014 goal will be get HP, complex, and tail-wheel.
My 2015 goal will be go to Osh (if it can be done VFR
)
Side note. I am really surprised by the responses on this thread. I really thought there would be a lot of people who had gone X years w/o it. A lot of people here have it. I thought it would be more 50/50.
I agree with the being on top. I have been lucky enough to get on top about 4 times and it is absolutely beautiful and no camera in the world can do it justice.
I work from home as needed and have a lot of flexibility with my current job to reschedule when I am where so if I do get stuck, It wont hurt me from a job perspective. May hurt the wallet (hotel costs) and bored kids but they have it good they deserve to be bored every now and then
Last year we wanted to go to Fredricksburg on Sat Morning. It was supposed to be IFR in Dallas so we left Friday night and flew to Georgetown (cheaper hotel). It was my first long night flight and it was a great experience. We landed and explored G-Town.
In the morning it was IFR we said if it stays this way we will just stay here again, no biggie. Soon it went MVFR I called Gillespie and they said it was VFR and ceilings were rising We did a bit of scud running. Maybe not a good idea but we flew field to field zig zagging to fredricksburg. Suddenly, this massive hole opens up in the clouds and we just flew in circles in this 8-10 mile hole in the clouds up and down and all over. It was beyond beautiful. While we were playing it completely burned off and we went on and had a great time.
This year we were going to go to Austin for a weekend but it was IFR south of here so we flew to Tulsa instead.
I guess the point is we had weather and we worked around it. we are in a position to play it by ear. She runs her own business and I am just lucky I have my flexibility.
I have been telling myself I need to get this IFR rating and I have the king IFR course and I started looking at it and also reading the instrument flying handbook and honestly I just thought that this is not interesting to me at all.
I think my 2014 goal will be get HP, complex, and tail-wheel.
My 2015 goal will be go to Osh (if it can be done VFR
Side note. I am really surprised by the responses on this thread. I really thought there would be a lot of people who had gone X years w/o it. A lot of people here have it. I thought it would be more 50/50.