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In a message dated 10/27/2001 12:52:12 AM Pacific Daylight Time, lancair.list@olsusa.com writes:

<< BUT, I
couldn't have told you, during that 34.5 hours in the plane, whether or not
I was in actual.  So I don't see that it would have made any difference at
all. >>

In theory, Matt is right.  In practice, going into a mean nasty cloud by myself for the first time in my Cessna 150 scared the crap out of me.  In fact, had I not done it before with an instructor, I probably would have turned around.  Such was not the case for the benign marine layers we have in California, which was pretty ho-hum and actually rather fun, where I felt the hood time was perfectly adequate training.

Actually, my instructor told me that if I ever got scared in IMC I should just put on my hood, which would make it all familiar.  My airport buddies laughed at this...  (and no, I didn't do it...)

- Rob Wolf

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