This was something I was thinking about today. I have now logged 150 hours and my tolerance / borders are way wider today than they were when I first qualified.
The thing is that make things tough. I don't really know what is dangerous to me anymore. When I qualified the legal minima are clear, as are the local school's requirements i.e. no cross wind faster than 10kt.
Today I regularly fly outside of the bounds, but still above legal minima and it's tough to feel out where my limits now actually are
Today I was flying circuits in 15G25 but straight down the runway. As a student it was way outside of my bounds, but today it was challenging but fine.
That is what I'm really starting to struggle with right now, where are my minima? How do I find them?
They are well above legal minima, there's no way I'd take pax if I were anywhere NEAR the 90 day 3 takeoff/landing rules.
I
will now use my IMCr to climb through cloud and fly VFR on top (in UK airspace) but don't feel confident enough to perform an IMC approach.
I guess what I'm babbling about is I can see what I am well in the danger zone because I'm so unclear as to where my limits are as opposed to when I first qualified.