There we are in the middle of the night...over hostile terrain...IFR in our Bell 206.....clouds right down into the tree tops....
OH MY! Just woke up....it was all just a very bad dream! Must lay off the Anchovie Sandwiches!
You can take all your statistics about engine failures....and stick'em Sir....the ramifications of a single donk dying in those conditions suggest to me that some things are best left alone. (...and yes...I have flown a Cessna 208 Caravan IFR over hostile terrain IFR....)and had an anxiety attack in the middle of it one night. Bore sighting the only engine on that thing....and seeing the tippy tops of the "Alps-like" mountains around Levenworth, Washington poking up out of the clouds into the moonlit sky brought home what engine failures are all about. I have sinned too much to rely upon Heavenly Intervention to allow many exposures like that.
One man's opinion
