Napoleon Dynamite wrote:
snipped scary thunderstorm stuff

How many hours of actual IMC did YOU require before you
could relax and think clearly in the soup?Any thoughts appreciated.

Well, I don't go anywhere near thunderstorms. I just don't have the
balls for that. They scare the hell out of me. Need I go on?

Anyway, I built most of my actual time (close to 100 hours) in the few
months/days that we had non-convective/non-icing IMC up north.
Generally this meant hopping in a plane anytime the surface temp was
above 60 and the ceilings below 1000 feet. We really had to look for
weather like this, and everyone took advantage of it when they could.

So I didn't require a lot of IMC before I felt safe - I just needed to
know that some thunderstorm wasn't go to reach down and get me.