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Old 7th Nov 2003, 17:49
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You never know when you are going to need it. You may plan to be VFR all the time, and I agree there is not pleasure in flying in zero visibility, but sometimes it may be necessary and of you need to do a let down through cloud you want to be doing it legally.

You will need to remain current and I would suggest an hour or two with a safety pilot every few weeks to shoot an ILS or NDB approach.

If you are uncomfortable in IMC then thet is an even better reason to continue with the training until you are much happier. If you get inadvertently into IMC, which can easily happen especially this time of year, then you need to be able to maintain control. Some American research showed that the average time between inadvertent IMC and loss of control leading to a fatal crash was 45 seconds. Anything you can do to improve those odds is well worth it.
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