"Ron Rosenfeld" wrote in message
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On 21 Jul 2004 23:18:02 GMT, (Hankal) wrote:

If the weather is that bad I do not launch.
I did not get my IFR ticket to kill myself

What are your personal minimums for launching IFR?

There are plenty of airports I've been in where it is not possible to
contact ATC for clearance other than by telephone even with weather well
above IFR minimums.

At my home base, for example, one cannot contact ATC by radio until at
4,000'.

Quite...go out to some of the the mid-west (Kansas, Nebraska, Eastern
Colorado...) and try raising ATC via radio even at 6,000, 8,000 feet.