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David Megginson
- Joined
- Mar 31, 2016
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This year, with no big trips on the horizon, I haven't been worrying about maintaining my IFR recency (I don't want to go up with a safety pilot or Transport Canada examiner, even with masks, until Ontario's mostly C19-free). So my flying has been totally different: mostly below 3,000 ft AGL, with a finger on a VFR chart, following roads and rivers and really getting familiar the towns, villages, water bodies, and landscape features within 100 nm of Ottawa in a way I never was flying in long, straight lines up high.
I do enjoy feeling of competence flying IFR, and the big increase in dispatch reliability (given the weather in my part of North America), but I'm also enjoying giving it a rest and just flying around without a destination, low enough to see what's down below me. Maybe there really is a rag-and-tube taildragger in my post-retirement future—it's a lot more relaxing than flying "missions".
I do enjoy feeling of competence flying IFR, and the big increase in dispatch reliability (given the weather in my part of North America), but I'm also enjoying giving it a rest and just flying around without a destination, low enough to see what's down below me. Maybe there really is a rag-and-tube taildragger in my post-retirement future—it's a lot more relaxing than flying "missions".
