It isn’t really the surly bonds of earth that bother me anymore, it’s the damn clouds. More specifically, the clouds which cover airports and keep the airplanes on the ground. It doesn’t keep all the airplanes on the ground, just those flown by pilots do not yet have instrument ratings.
I want an instrument rating. To be a better pilot, to learn more, to press myself further in a chosen endeavor, but also for the freedom. Here on the west coast there is very little bad weather. Oh, we get some rain and a few wind storms, and the occasional real storm off of the Pacific, but we live in a desert and we just don’t have the sort of constant thunderstorms the east coast sees. I have learned a lot about icing levels and freezing rain, but in general it doesn’t apply to the sort of flying I do.
