Departing VFR into IFR

[Publishers]

Center 39PP is IFR to "THUNK"

 

[p.b.]

I did it once when flying a 91 leg on my 135 check route. It was the most terrifying 3 minutes of my career. It seemed like an ok idea until approach refused to answer, I realized I wasn't as comfortable with the terrain as I thought, and the ceiling seemed a whole lot lower than when I landed 10 minutes earlier.

Anyone who's done it and says its no problem, doesn't have a whole lot of self-preservation instinct! I wouldn't go flying with them. Maybe with TCAS and EGPWS it wouldn't be so scary, I still wouldn't do it again.

 

[Kingairrick]

If you are 135, and have no dispatcher, you are probably breaking the flight following requirement FAR. It's also REALLY STUPID. Ask the members of Reba MacIntire's band that did it out of Brown Field a few years ago in a Hawker. Oh, sorry, you can't. They are part of the geography now. It was a very clear night too...

 

[bart]

Thanks for the responses, I printed them out, blacked out your screen names and placed them in my "buddy's" mailbox.


Thanks for the help...

 

[Corona]

Thanks for the responses, I printed them out, blacked out your screen names and placed them in my "buddy's" mailbox.


Thanks for the help...

Please do let us know what he says...

C

 

[bart]

Will do, so far the responses have been along the lines of "under 135 we can depart VFR and skimming thin clouds is one thing, IMC is another, even at night."

Unbelievable...

 

[Ravengirl]

This accident killed a couple of guys I went to high school with. Be careful out there...