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"David Brooks" wrote:

"Robert M. Gary" wrote in message
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I do all most all of my night flying IFR. Personally, any night flight
out of the local area is IFR. I've lost one good friend who hit the
ground by accident at night (ref: NTSB N80720).

Unfortunately the Commercial certificate makes you take at least one night
cross-country VFR. Is that inadvertently instilling bad habits? :-) Even
more annoying, you have to bring along some CFI-ballast.

Not at all -- I have many 500+mile night trips under my belt (all VFR).
You just have to be extra careful about weather, so you don't get in
over your head.

Night w/low ceilings/poor vis + mountains = disaster.