My question remains - have you done a 0/0 take-off in he actual aircraft? In actual 0/0 (or even near that) conditions?
Yes.....in several different types of helicopters. Military and civilian.
I would wonder how the Ops Officer would have signed your flight release without an available departure alternate.
If you are genuinely of the Blue Canoe generation then you know full well there were many years where an Army Aviator usually ran into the Operations Officer in the O Club (or Tent) after the day's flying was done, the Approval Process required by AR 95-1 was just a piece of paper held in a Binder somewhere in Operations and only referred to during "New Guy" In-processing.
You should also know we got a bit of weather briefing in the morning before take-off and none the rest of the day with a return quite late in the dark on more than a few occasions as well. You might tell folks about the great abundance of weather reporting in the AO we operated in during those years and all of the Navaids we did not have. Perhaps you can educate them on Tactical Figure Eight Approaches using FM Homing while you are at it.
Or did you miss out on all those fun and games somehow?
If you never got to do that kind of flying then perhaps you might tell us a bit about your Instrument Flying experience in the Army.
If you flew the Blue Canoe then you know how useless that system was.
Likewise if you did fly the SFTS, then you can explain to everyone why doing an Instrument Take Off in that device was even harder than in the actual Aircraft due to the absolute absence of any external cues.
So H, do tell us where you are coming from when you want to talk Army Instrument flying Techniques performed in the Real World. Did you have any? Did you obtain an Army Instrument Rating beyond the Tactical Instrument Rating?
What Instrument Ratings have you had in the Civilian World?
Now, any more questions?