Best Headset?

Hankal,

If the weather is that bad I do not launch.
I did not get my IFR ticket to kill myself


That is a really weird point of view, IMHO. As someone else mentioned,
you'd be unable to legally launch with a 1200 feet ceiling. If you
consider that a major risk, why did you get the IR in the first place?

--
Thomas Borchert (EDDH)

On 21 Jul 2004 23:18:02 GMT, (Hankal) wrote:

If the weather is that bad I do not launch.
I did not get my IFR ticket to kill myself

What are your personal minimums for launching IFR?

There are plenty of airports I've been in where it is not possible to
contact ATC for clearance other than by telephone even with weather well
above IFR minimums.

At my home base, for example, one cannot contact ATC by radio until at
4,000'.


Ron (EPM) (N5843Q, Mooney M20E) (CP, ASEL, ASES, IA)

In a previous article, (Hankal) said:
You're missing the situation where you're at an untowered airport, and the
ceilings are so low and the nearest atc too far away that you can't get
your clearance in the air without penetrating the class E. So you phone

If the weather is that bad I do not launch.
I did not get my IFR ticket to kill myself

I didn't realize that having a tower or a near-by RCO was a pre-requisite
for terrain clearance. Silly me, I thought that if you followed the
departure procedures and standard IFR practice, that you wouldn't hit the
ground. Thanks for clarifying that for me.


--
Paul Tomblin http://xcski.com/blogs/pt/
Must admit, I'd like to know what is the homeopathic treatment for
gunshot wounds.
-- Tanuki

"Ron Rosenfeld" wrote in message
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On 21 Jul 2004 23:18:02 GMT, (Hankal) wrote:

If the weather is that bad I do not launch.
I did not get my IFR ticket to kill myself

What are your personal minimums for launching IFR?

There are plenty of airports I've been in where it is not possible to
contact ATC for clearance other than by telephone even with weather well
above IFR minimums.

At my home base, for example, one cannot contact ATC by radio until at
4,000'.

Quite...go out to some of the the mid-west (Kansas, Nebraska, Eastern
Colorado...) and try raising ATC via radio even at 6,000, 8,000 feet.