[QUOTE=bose-x]Get an IR and then accuse me of talking bollox.
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You are talking bo11ox.
There have not been any significant unforecasted enroute winds in Europe recently.
If flying any form of crosscountry flight even the student pilot with 32 hours on their skill test are required to provide reasonable accurate eta's and update them if an error is found.
Even if there was an unforecasted wind, a 1 hour late ata should have been obvious from a long way back along the route so even if you were transiting the alps from Austria through Switzerland and onto Nice, you could easily have diverted to a non-alpine aerodrome.
Can you circle to land at Cannes after dark? If not would that not have been something to consider at the planning stage and suitable enroute alternates found?
Why did you fly an ILS at Nice, is the preferred Riviera and other noise abatement arrivals not to your liking?
What were your plans for an engine failure at about the half way stage?
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The problem with AOPA is that they never have people who know enough about what they are dealing with to be able to press the regulator if required.
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Dublin Pilot and stevieb1,
The IR does of course give night flying privileges just like the CPL and thus one needs nornal colour vision. Yes one could have a CPL limited to Day VFR and get round the vision requirements.
However, with the IR, which of course is not type limited. there is another problem.
Imagine an IR holder restricted to day only breaks out at minima from a ILS with just the bare visual requirments over a full CAT 3 approach lighting and runway lighting system.
Undershoot area lights are red, threshold lights are green and touchdown zone lights are white. You are at 200ft descending with only about 300m visibility you have fractions of a second to differentiate the light colours and decide where the threshold and touchdown zone is..........can a colour-blind person make the difference between the red and green lights?
Put it another way....as a Doctor, are you going to sign a piece of paper that they will?
Regards,
DFC