Originally Posted by
skywatch
"I do it all the time" means that somehow it is less risky? Good that you would not do it in an unfamiliar aircraft, but again? Not throwing shade, promise, but it might be time for a self assessment. These sound too much like the kind of things those god-like, omnipotent pilots say before they kill themselves. Best wishes.
Out of pure curiosity, what is it that makes you believe this is risky?
Im making a prediction: Someday a captain will not take a flight because the GPS antenna is defered. Too risky he will say.
So what im getting at here is what we determine to be too much risk. Personally I would not say that single pilot IFR in a single engine aircraft is risky. Challenging yes. Risky, no. That said proficiency is important.
So to some up my thoughts: Do some of that pilot S$!t mav