Question to the IFR Pilots Out There

Thanks for the reply!

BTW, great photos,, do you have anymore on-line?

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Good Flights!

Cecil E. Chapman, Jr.
PP-ASEL

"We who fly do so for the love of flying.
We are alive in the air with this miracle
that lies in our hands and beneath our feet"

- Cecil Day Lewis-

Check out my personal flying adventures: www.bayareapilot.com
"Jeff" wrote in message ...
the instrument ticket is priceless, 2 days ago I took my plane up for the
first
time in a month (it had been in the shop getting new avionics installed)
went only about 40 miles out to the MMM VOR, when I turned around to head
back,
the city was covered by low clouds and what looked like fog on the ground,
I
thought I could go under it, but as I got closer it did not look do'able.

I was talking to nellis approach because I was entering class B, told them
I
didnt think I could make it in without a clearence, they gave it to me and
away
I went.
technically, it was not VFR, I did not actually go through any clouds, but
I
skimmed them so I could not log it as actual. but once below the layer and
I was
able to see the airport, I canceled IFR and did the visual approach.

You can see the las vegas valley in this picture and the fog, kinda sucked
I
couldnt login as actual even tho it was not VFR.
http://216.158.136.206/newplane/clouds/image3.html

Here is the cloud I almost got to fly through
http://216.158.136.206/newplane/clouds/image2.html


Jeff

"Cecil E. Chapman" wrote:

For those of you who have your instrument ticket, how many hours of
actual
IMC did you have when you got your ticket.

At approx 40 hours of instrument time I have a 'whopping' .9 hours of
ACTUAL
IMC... I sincerely hope I'm going to get to see a lot more before I get
my
instrument ticket - which I'm guessing should be around April or May at
the
latest.

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Good Flights!

Cecil E. Chapman, Jr.
PP-ASEL

"We who fly do so for the love of flying.
We are alive in the air with this miracle
that lies in our hands and beneath our feet"

- Cecil Day Lewis-

Check out my personal flying adventures: www.bayareapilot.com

yes I have quite a few, one set is from doing the ILS into chino, ca. , I didnt
know my wife was taking them but she took them all the way down the glideslope,
visibility was like a mile.
pictures and some video clips I made are here
http://216.158.136.206/newplane/index.html


"Cecil E. Chapman" wrote:

Thanks for the reply!

BTW, great photos,, do you have anymore on-line?

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--
Good Flights!

Cecil E. Chapman, Jr.
PP-ASEL

"We who fly do so for the love of flying.
We are alive in the air with this miracle
that lies in our hands and beneath our feet"

- Cecil Day Lewis-

Check out my personal flying adventures: www.bayareapilot.com
"Jeff" wrote in message ...
the instrument ticket is priceless, 2 days ago I took my plane up for the
first
time in a month (it had been in the shop getting new avionics installed)
went only about 40 miles out to the MMM VOR, when I turned around to head
back,
the city was covered by low clouds and what looked like fog on the ground,
I
thought I could go under it, but as I got closer it did not look do'able.

I was talking to nellis approach because I was entering class B, told them
I
didnt think I could make it in without a clearence, they gave it to me and
away
I went.
technically, it was not VFR, I did not actually go through any clouds, but
I
skimmed them so I could not log it as actual. but once below the layer and
I was
able to see the airport, I canceled IFR and did the visual approach.

You can see the las vegas valley in this picture and the fog, kinda sucked
I
couldnt login as actual even tho it was not VFR.
http://216.158.136.206/newplane/clouds/image3.html

Here is the cloud I almost got to fly through
http://216.158.136.206/newplane/clouds/image2.html


Jeff

"Cecil E. Chapman" wrote:

For those of you who have your instrument ticket, how many hours of
actual
IMC did you have when you got your ticket.

At approx 40 hours of instrument time I have a 'whopping' .9 hours of
ACTUAL
IMC... I sincerely hope I'm going to get to see a lot more before I get
my
instrument ticket - which I'm guessing should be around April or May at
the
latest.

--
--
Good Flights!

Cecil E. Chapman, Jr.
PP-ASEL

"We who fly do so for the love of flying.
We are alive in the air with this miracle
that lies in our hands and beneath our feet"

- Cecil Day Lewis-

Check out my personal flying adventures: www.bayareapilot.com

Cecil E. Chapman wrote:
: For those of you who have your instrument ticket, how many hours of actual
: IMC did you have when you got your ticket.

: At approx 40 hours of instrument time I have a 'whopping' .9 hours of ACTUAL
: IMC... I sincerely hope I'm going to get to see a lot more before I get my
: instrument ticket - which I'm guessing should be around April or May at the
: latest.

I just finished my checkride about 6 weeks ago. At the time, I
went out of my way to choose my cross-countries with the instructor to
where it was "perfect IFR training" weather.... 3000-5000' AGL scattered
stuff. In the end, did most of my two cross-countries in actual with the
instructor. He also had me do 1.4 hours of actual for my private a year
earlier. At the time of the checkride:

Actual: 9.3
Simulated: 32
X-C: 115
Total: 250

Since the ticked, did two trips IFR. One trip enroute IMC for
about 1 hour, VMC departure and destination. Second departed IFR 1000'
from Milwaukee, got to almost VMC by Indiana (2 hours later after stinkin'
Chicago reroute) to shoot SCT 1500'/5mi.

Still not overly confident (especially because of ice this time of
year). I feel I could definately do a bit lower/harder, but certainly not
going to head out into it intentionally.

FWIW
-Cory
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