WAS: How safe is it, really?

Andrew Gideon writes:

That statement was made during an ASF presentation I attended a while ago.
It puzzled me. Why would a IR pilot fly VFR into IMC?

not Instrument rated in the aircraft

not current

insufficient instrumentation in the aircraft

not confident in handling clearance

lacking appropriate charts

lacking sufficient fuel reserves

lacking sufficient flight planning

not willing to give up VMC

--kyler

"G.R. Patterson III" wrote in message
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Peter wrote:

Is there some part of this story that I'm missing?

Transition to flying by instruments when you've been flying visually is
not
simple and takes time. The airlines learned this in the 30s and will have
one
pilot already on the gauges during takeoff when the aircraft will be in
IMC
shortly.

An instrument rated pilot goes on the gauges before entering IMC and can
be
expected to do well at it. Those who enter IMC unexpectedly may lose
control of
the aircraft during the transition to instrument flight.

I think your conflating the transition to instruments with the transition to
visual after and approach.

Keeping the aircraft upright , during transition, is not that difficult (not
the easy, but not that difficult either).


Matt
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Matthew W. Barrow
Site-Fill Homes, LLC.
Montrose, CO

Thanks Dave - interesting report

Tony

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Tony Roberts
PP-ASEL
VFR OTT
Night
Cessna 172H C-GICE

In article ,
"Dave Stadt" wrote:

"tony roberts" wrote in message
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Hi Dave

Could you give me a link to that info?

Thanks

Tony

It's the Nall report on the AOPA WEB site