Yeah, wait till you're on multi's before you really start racking up the night time. I did my original night stuff in a C152 over LA. Thing is, there are so many lights out there that it's almost daytime anyway, and if your engine quits you're landing on the freeway regardless of what time it is. When I moved to the UK it was a little disconcerting to see all the black areas of nothingness.
It's one thing to be frustrated by not having the requisite hours to unfreeze your ATPL, but I bet it's better than trying to trouble-shoot your lycoming at Vglide as you descend into a...field? or is it a forest?
should I turn on my landing light? or keep it off?
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