Rusty Cessna:
If you are planning on flying for a career the areos training is worth twenty times the value of night flying.
If you are flying for fun the areos training is worth twenty times the value in improving flying skills.
The night rating can be added anytime and it is a very over hyped training course.
I am not saying that night flying does not require extra training and care when flying, I am merely saying there is a lot of hype involved in the training courses. Remember flying schools would have a hard time selling inflated courses and then advertising the skills needed really are not that different from day flying.
Having stepped that far into that brown stuff, may I add that night flying is far safer if you have training in instrument flying skills sufficient to pass the instrument flying skills segments of the IFR flight test.
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The hardest thing about flying is knowing when to say no.