Michael wrote:


All the time that I have EVER saved by eliminating or reducing delays
hasn't added up to the time I spent getting the instrument rating,
never mind staying current. And I got mine with substantially less
than 40 hours of instrument flight training, the balance being hood
time on trips I would have flown anyway.

Well here in the east things might be different. I can't tell you
the number of times when I have been stuck either because the
visibility has been between 1 and 3 miles OR clouds prevented
me from clearing the terrain, when there was no threat of either
freezing or thunderstorms.

Just coming back from my "simulated" checkride put us in mountain
obscuration conditions when both the departure and destination
were P6SN 3000BKN.