Brian wrote:


The biggest down side to the Instrument rating is that you need to
spend about 30 or 40 minutes a month to shoot a couple approaches to
keep current so that you can fly IMC for 5 minutes to get out of the
airport you are fogged into.

We have several nice approaches to our home field and I nearly always
fly with Margy (built in safety pilot) so just flying with the foggles
on for the last few minutes of a flight I'm making otherwise is not
a daunting prospect. Nothing says they have to be done IFR.