Some of the earlier posts stated that IMC at night is considered particularly hazardous in SEP aircraft. So do folks geneally think this is slightly more risky than normal or the GA equivalent of russian roulette ?
Well, as someone called our cheerfully to us as we walked out onto the tarmac last time, "remember, if the engine stops you die".
But the engine doesn't know it's night time, and it's not going to stop during the day[#], so why should it stop at night?
I've got an IMCR lesson booked for 4pm tomorrow.
[#] Well,
probably not, particularly if you're flying with an organisation whose last engine failure (if indeed they've ever had one at all) was so many decades ago that none of the old-timers can remember it ever happening. If the wing falls off you die
even in VMC in the daytime - but that's not very likely either.