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I think it depends on the environment you are used to operating in! I did a lot of Twin Fixed wing flying where you were often operating OCAS and into small out of the way places in Scotland, Northern and Southern Ireland.
So you tend to be more "On the Hoof" and creative than when as now my flying is CAS operations in private jets.
I do miss the piston twins and that sort of OCAS flying which was a mix of IFR IMC as well as VMC flying and quite a kick from the challenge of it.
I am not a Helicopter pilot but imagine that they even more so are used to flying in minimal VMC conditions.
As such there must be a reluctance to declare a problem, climb, drag all the charts and plates out and change to IFR especially in Helicopters.
On top of that you have a customer waiting at one airfield while you land at another with the extra delay that an IFR approach demands ???
Last edited by Pace; 19th Jan 2013 at 17:36.