Whether to use the FAA's minimum standards depends on you, the airplane and the weather. Sometimes, you just have to say "No."If you've been around aviation much at all, you've heard this one before: "[Fill in the blank] is a license to learn." The speaker invariably is looking in the direction of a freshly minted Private pilot or someone with a wet-ink Instrument rating. He or she is admonishing, in a not-so-subtle way, that a certificate of accomplishment issued by the FAA doesn't mean squat on a dark and stormy night when the rain sounds like a bad rock band's drummer and the altimeter just won't stay in one place.
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