Originally Posted by Mike Cross
Echo the "don't fly through it if you can't see through it" advice. Suffering as I do from back trouble (it has a large yellow streak down it) I wouldn't be flying in anything more than isolated showers.
Don't see how you can improve on this response. As I read somewhere on this / another forum, the dirt is full of people who had something to prove.
VFR? Don't set off into rain as possibility you will go IMC. Already airborne and find yourself heading for rain? Go around it or DON'T BE AFRAID TO DIVERT.
I went for a bimble in Ireland last year with friends and had a short but unacceptable case of press-on-itis. Rain? Rain? Don't talk to me about f#$king rain. Carb heater paid for itself that day. Forget about putting it to cold at 500 ft to assist with a go-around. Stayed on all the way to the ground.
The Wombat
PS, when I say rain I don't mean drizzle, which many of us live with every day of the bloody year.