Mustafagander :
What are you trying to say ?
What has a metro autopilot got to do with it ?
My answer to your question :
Yes - flight at night in VMC is defined as "night VMC".
Where does it say you cannot fly RPT in night VMC ? The airlines do this every night albeit still under an IFR flight plan.
Flight at night in VMC can be done under an IFR flight plan. The pilot submits an IFR flight plan and has no control if the actual conditions are IMC or VMC. If the conditons are IMC then the portion of the flight in IMC can be logged as IF time.
For the pilots flying metro's/etc... at night, sure they might have lots of legitimate time under the IFR flight plan but not necessarily lots of IF time (in actual IMC ). For some people there is an "apparently confusing" difference between the two.
Last edited by Bagot_Community_Locator; 6th Jul 2002 at 10:50.