Originally Posted by
Mike Flynn
The UK night rating is easy to obtain if you only fly near built up areas. However flying over the sea or mountains at night is a different scenario. It appears in this case the pilot was very experienced in day paradropping where most of his hours were acquired.
I got my UK night rating with only five hours experience at Cardiff back in 1982. Amazingly that allowed me to fly from Guernsey to Cardiff at night with no visual reference to the surface.I say none because it is often difficult to see the sea at night and certainly from a safe altitude in a small hand flown aircraft.
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Mike Flynn are you sure that's correct, I understood the UK night rating on a PPL to be UK FIR only, same as the IMC