Using the IMC abroad..

[Sillert,V.I.]

Originally Posted by Fuji Abound

Sorry to be blunt, but you were stupid.

I made some extremely stupid decisions that day, but I am not normally a stupid person. I posted the story because it is a real life example of how having an IMCr can seduce you into a dangerous spiral of ever-more irrational decision making. Without in any way seeking to condone what I did, the additional pressures of flying single-pilot IFR in a typical club rental aircraft are not conducive to clarity of thought when the difficult choices have to be made.

At the time of that flight, I was much the same age as the OP, and also "new to it". I learned the limits of my licence and capabilities the hard way and hope my story will help someone else from making the same mistakes.




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