What a dummy..

[stmymdy]

I think I might have seen the worst pilot ever today.
Buddy flew in VFR, through cb's in imc weather and landed with visual like 200ft back
when the 1900 holding outside the vor refused to shoot an
approach and eventually diverted somewhere else

[ditar]

If you can't go IFR go VFR.

[Gstar]

Did you see this? did you hear this ? Where you in the air? refueling on the ground? the RVR? Cleaning a clients car? in the 1900? In the dummies airplane?

[stmymdy]

i heard it on the radio/saw it from the ground

[aviator2010]

I think I might have seen the worst pilot ever today.
Buddy flew in VFR, through cb's in imc weather and landed with visual like 200ft back
when the 1900 holding outside the vor refused to shoot an
approach and eventually diverted somewhere else

southern pilot

If you can't go IFR go VFR.

northern pilot

What were the CB's topped at?

[fish4life]

and that my friend is what you refer to as a real pilot

[stmymdy]

topped around 32.
its just the sheer stupidity of it that got me, how can you be so DUMB?!

[rigpiggy]

there have been many times where a contact/vfr approach has gotten me in where another 500' for the ifr approach would have had me rockinandrolling. if you weren't in the cockpit,it isn't your place to criticize

[aviator2010]

bingo

[200hr Wonder]

There have been times when I have shot the IFR approach, missed, found a hole on the missed, break cloud on a contact approach and laded without incident. All depends what you see and where you are sitting. Not to mention I would not be the least bit surprised if the 1900 was bound by SOPs to stick to the approach rather doing a contact approach. Picking through a few CBs in a single at 100 knots is a lot easier then in a 1900 at 150 knots, with 19 people in the back who do not necessarily like getting rocked around as your pick your way through. Until you are in the cockpit, perhaps you should just watch from the peanut gallery. It has been said , "It is better to be keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool then to open it and remove all doubt."

[Caracrane]

he never really went trough a real cumulonimbus first

[Big Pistons Forever]

A buddy of mine once got hired by a small 703 operator on the West Coast. The CP says "OK here is how it works. We never turn down flights, if it is VFR take the 182, If it is IFR take the Aztec, if it is below IFR take the 185 on floats"

[iflyforpie]

A buddy of mine once got hired by a small 703 operator on the West Coast. The CP says "OK here is how it works. We never turn down flights, if it is VFR take the 182, If it is IFR take the Aztec, if it is below IFR take the 185 on floats"

I have coffee on the keyboard now!

One guy who worked for us in YCW commuted from Nanaimo in the company's Cherokee 140 (wheels of course). He had a 100% success rate through the winter...

[Lurch]

When the weather's good go VFR

When the weather's bad go IFR

When the weather's very bad go VFR

Lurch

[stmymdy]

There have been times when I have shot the IFR approach, missed, found a hole on the missed, break cloud on a contact approach and laded without incident. All depends what you see and where you are sitting. Not to mention I would not be the least bit surprised if the 1900 was bound by SOPs to stick to the approach rather doing a contact approach. Picking through a few CBs in a single at 100 knots is a lot easier then in a 1900 at 150 knots, with 19 people in the back who do not necessarily like getting rocked around as your pick your way through. Until you are in the cockpit, perhaps you should just watch from the peanut gallery. It has been said , "It is better to be keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool then to open it and remove all doubt."

ya, you're totally right. what was I thinking.
if i wouldn't be caught dead making the call to fly vfr from the ground, what right do i have
to question someone elses call to fly vfr. and ya, i wasn't in the cockpit of either airplane
but that doesnt mean i dont have a valid point.

[zzjayca]

I hope the comments aren't reflective of the majority of pilots. No wonder you are "pressured into flying below limits". Doesn't sound like it's the companies you work for that are doing the pressuring though.

You all are your own worst enemies.

[canwhitewolf]

rules are for a reason and many people died getting the rules right

some of the comments here sure arent correct

[nortont]

IFR = I follow roads / railways etc.

VFR = Very foggy and rainy.

[Hawkerflyer]

Seems like we have some cowboys in here! That's why you guys fly in the north, got to keep all those ego's away from the real world.

[Stallspin]

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[OhKiE DoHkIe]

A buddy of mine once got hired by a small 703 operator on the West Coast. The CP says "OK here is how it works. We never turn down flights, if it is VFR take the 182, If it is IFR take the Aztec, if it is below IFR take the 185 on floats"

AWESOME!

[stmymdy]

VFR = 1 SM, heavy precip, lightning, and hail mixed in right?

ya in YQL
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spelling police

[zeppelin]

I think I worked for that same 703 operator in Alberni,and that's exactly how it went...

[DeuceEng]

VFR = 1 SM, heavy precip, lightning, and hail mixed in right?

SVFR - 1 SM and clear of cloud.

[Stallspin]

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