Reminds me of the time I flew into Carlsbad NM one day when the field was
IFR. Shot the ILS.
http://www.myairplane.com/databases/...st/CNM_ir3.pdf
The controllers were clearly out of practice and rusty in handling actual
IFR operations, and overwhelmed by the workload of two airplanes approaching
the airport at the same time. I had to prompt them a couple of times to get
the next vector. Turns out that on average they only get a few hours of IMC
a year out there.

"Tom S." wrote in message
...

"Cecil E. Chapman" wrote in message
.. .
For those of you who have your instrument ticket, how many hours of
actual
IMC did you have when you got your ticket.

At approx 40 hours of instrument time I have a 'whopping' .9 hours of
ACTUAL
IMC... I sincerely hope I'm going to get to see a lot more before I get
my
instrument ticket - which I'm guessing should be around April or May at
the
latest.


Well, next in the week or so I'll hit my 2000th hour. I've got 830 hrs
Instrument time of which 42.5 are actual IMC.

But then, I've never flown east of the Mississippi, only out here in the
clear air of the west.

Seems like most pilots flying predominately in the west get only about 5%
of
their time as "actual", so my figures at least are right on target.