Well, no doubt that night flying is riskier than daytime VFR flying, especially in a single-engined aircraft (although I wasn't aware that anyone had mentioned how many engines the aircraft had anywhere on this thread up until now....)
But the way Stooge's post comes across, it's as if he's saying that anyone taking off at night under any circumstances is not going to come back alive. Which is total and utter crap - as proven by the hundreds of pilots who fly single-engined aircraft at night every winter and come back alive.
Yes, of course there are risks. Some of them can be mitigated to a large extent, e.g. by not flying over mountains at night. Some of them can't. Some of the risks are there during the day just as much as at night. Discussing the risks, and ways of making night flying as safe as possible, is valid and important. Writing off the whole concept of night flying as "very handy if you want to kill yourself" is not helpful. And it's also not at all relevant in a thread where the original poster was asking about legal issues of flying at night, not about practical issues.
FFF
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