When in doubt of the safe, successful completion of the flight there is no doubt- chicken out.
Or- It's better to be on the ground wishing you were flying than it is to be flying wishing you were on the ground.
Never, ever continue a flight you don't have a safe, attainable landing from at any point. That's a more or less logical extension from my 1969 warrant officer training in which the instructor would chop the throttle and declare 'engine failure'! A pink slip, the result of a failed instructional flight.;
Edit: "Tactical ticket" out of Army flight school. Good enough for the next two decades. At that point I wanted a 'beach' job with PHI, so I got my ATP, which included an instrument test.
At that time most IFR was to get out of, and into on-shore bases, legally.
Many IFR ships just didn't bother, 300 feet and 2 miles is pretty VFR crappy but was permitted twins and IFR ships, crews. Did that for about 10 years before I 'up-graded'
Last edited by Devil 49; 2nd May 2022 at 20:23.