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Teacherjh wrote:

My first flight (I think it was my first) after getting my rating was a CAVU
day out of TEB, but I filed IFR for practice in the system(which my instructor
encouraged me to do). We waited ONE HOUR at the hold line in an Arrow.

One of my first IFR flights after I got my rating had me holding short of
27R at OAK for about 25 minutes. I was sure glad I was only paying for
enough gas to idle the engine instead of $100+/hr.

Of course at my present rate it will be many years before the cost of
the instrument rating, amortized over all the subsequent hours of actual
and number of approaches, falls below $absurd/hr. Today I racked up all
of .1 flying over a bunch of layers in western Washington -- and if I'd
been VFR I could have just descended about 15 miles sooner through a
giant hole in the clouds. On the other hand, without the rating I
probably would have stayed another night or tried to go underneath the
whole way.

--
Ben Jackson

http://www.ben.com/