I had a first for me Friday morning for "getting in" on the ragged edge. Going to KJAX from my Atlanta area home base in my Mooney fog had enveloped everything from middle Georgia down the northeast coast of FL. the AWOS was an indefinite ceiling of 100' and RVR of 1000'. I have made approaches where I saw nothing at minimums and went elsewhere, so I gave it a shot.
I went from crystal clear skies to solid IMC at 1400'. The tower advised rhat midfield RVR had hone up to 3000'. I let my stec50 autopilot do the localizer, but had to handfly the glide slope. At exactly 200' agl I saw one little light in the ALSF2 approach lighting so on down I went. At 100' there was the runway environment right in front of me. Cool stuff. And a heck of a good feeling. I landed at 7:45am and was instructed by the tower to tell them when I turned off cause they couldn't see in the fog. I had this big airport to myself as I taxied over to Signature for the privilege of buying their $8+/gal gas.
To those working on your instrument rating I commend you and urge you to finish. To those with the rating but don't use it much keep in practice. IFR is a great tool. I sure had fun with it on that trip.
I went from crystal clear skies to solid IMC at 1400'. The tower advised rhat midfield RVR had hone up to 3000'. I let my stec50 autopilot do the localizer, but had to handfly the glide slope. At exactly 200' agl I saw one little light in the ALSF2 approach lighting so on down I went. At 100' there was the runway environment right in front of me. Cool stuff. And a heck of a good feeling. I landed at 7:45am and was instructed by the tower to tell them when I turned off cause they couldn't see in the fog. I had this big airport to myself as I taxied over to Signature for the privilege of buying their $8+/gal gas.
To those working on your instrument rating I commend you and urge you to finish. To those with the rating but don't use it much keep in practice. IFR is a great tool. I sure had fun with it on that trip.