On 2006-09-27, John Clear wrote:
I've debated getting my instrument rating for awhile, but most of
my flying is taking friends up to see stuff, and the inside of one
cloud looks like them all. Punching through the bay stratus would
be useful, but the delays would take the fun out of it.

Not quite. Some of those clouds like to go green, flash a lot, and try
and disassemble your aircraft.

Seriously - if you're flying IFR, generally (or at least in my
experience) you don't tend to spend all that much time inside a cloud.
Quite a lot of it between them, above them, flying in and out of them.
Some of the most beautiful flights I've had have been IFR - bursting
from a wall of cloud into majestic canyons and mountains of cloud, all
patterned dappled by the overhead altocumulus. It was almost like being
on another planet.

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