Blind Squirell
I was always taught to never do anything in aviation where you dont have an out!!!! If you do your playing Russian Roulette.
Thinking back I did many flights many moons ago in singles which were not up to the job and in attrocious weather and got away with it. Getting away with it then becomes experience.
Some dont get away with it !!!
Fly within your own and the aircrafts limits! The problem is knowing what your and the aircrafts limits are! In the wrong conditions is not the place to find out.
Being lucky enough to fly high performance aircraft makes a pilot realise how ill equipt some piston singles and even some "twins" are.
As I said in an earlier post in this thread a few weeks ago flying a Citation Jet into the IOM at night I descended into icing where I had an inch buildup every six minutes. The Citation dealt with it well a PA28 would not.
Pace