Jim Logajan wrote:
The waiting began.

If they needed to get there then what was stopping them from buying an
airline ticket?



Obviously you've never been in their boat. If they buy tickets (unplanned
expense), then they still need to come back (another unplanned expense) to pick
up the plane.

I'm not saying this is smart. I'm just saying this is what they were probably
thinking. I have thought it myself back in my VFR-only days. Getting pinched
by the weather was what propelled (pardon the pun) me to earn the instrument
rating 9 months after getting my private license.

I have bought exactly one airline ticket in almost 3000 hours of flying. I will
play in a lot of crap, but me and icing don't get along.



--
Mortimer Schnerd, RN
mschnerdatcarolina.rr.com