AOPA Pilot Magazine - June 2015 - 94

P&E

NEVER AGAIN

My brain had drifted
to halfway between
VFR and IFR-a place
that doesn't
exist.

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Would I have told the controller that I was
IMC and asked for different instructions?
Would I have had the presence of mind to
reflect on the fact that a southerly heading
would have been a safer direction for the
climb than my northeasterly one, because
there are no tall buildings south of the
Statue of Liberty?
Or would I have thought, I have no good
options. I'm in the clouds, but I'll probably
be in the clouds no matter which direction I
turn, so I might as well continue doing what
I was assigned? Would I have stopped to
consider in the heat of the moment that no
controller ever expects to vector airplanes
in clouds below 500 feet near high-rise
buildings and that, of course, this controller expected me to be able to see where I
was going?
It's hard to know what I would have
done, but I can see clearly in retrospect
that there was a problem with my mindset.
My brain had drifted to halfway between
VFR and IFR-a place that doesn't exist. I
should have been thinking, I'm VFR, and I
have to do whatever it takes to see where
I'm going. If I can't see where I'm going,
I have to declare an emergency and fly a
heading I know to be free of obstructions.
Instead I was thinking, I have to get myself
on an instrument flight plan, and this controller is going to get me on one.
Of course, a smarter pilot might have
declined the descent into the Class B VFR
corridor to begin with. But that's a different subject.
AOPA
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