Pilots who transition from flying strictly for pleasure to a combination of pleasure and utility face a whole new set of challenges. For instance, weather conditions that might have kept a pilot on the ground if he had no place in particular to be suddenly present a conundrum for the same pilot who has made a commitment to arrive at a particular place at an appointed time.
We can remind ourselves that we should never become ensnared by the traps of “Get-there-itis,” but the truth is, if we’re regularly using our airplanes for transportation, we are routinely planning trips that are designed to start and end on a given day at more or less a specific time. No trip is so important that it can’t be delayed by a day or two if the weather is miserable — but what about those other times, when the weather is maybe not so bad?
