I should have been flying

Yeah, most people wouldn't have called today's weather ideal, but I was sitting at my desk wishing I was flying.  It was raining and/or overcast all day.  At about 3:00PM this afternoon, the weather at KVTA was 19°C (so no worries about icing), winds from 010@09 (a fair crosswind), clouds broken at 600, broken at 1000, overcast at 2600 (it was actually pretty variable below that overcast).  Now that I'm IFR current again, today would have been a great day to get some time in actual IMC.  It has been a long time since I flew in actual instrument conditions down to minimums, but it was well above the ILS minimums at KCMH and if I missed once going into KVTA, I probably could have gotten in the next time around, so not being able to get down wasn't really a concern.  Sigh...  I do need to get some time in actual again.

Flight Log 2009-10-17

Well, I will reach 200 hours total time before the year is out, after today I am at 199.5 (143.4 PIC time) and I need to fly again in Dec to remain current to rent at KVTA.  I went for another $100 hamburger today.  Flew over to Urbana Grimes (I74) for scrambled eggs, bacon, toast, and black raspberry pie.  The banana cream pie actually looked better, but I didn't see it until after I had the black raspberry.  Then, on the way back I did a touch-and-go at Madison County (KUYF) to add 2 new airports.  I was supposed to have landed at I74 on my first night cross-country with Bruce back in 2002, but the lights weren't working, so we circled the black hole and then flew back.  I was originally supposed to fly to Charleston, WV today to visit a fried I haven't seen in 24 years, but the weather looked pretty bad that direction, so we changed those plans a couple days ago.  At takeoff there were reports of ice between 6000 and 8000 feet, so I wouldn't have wanted to fly much (any) actual today.  Ceilings were about 4000 feet at KVTA, but scattered at 4000 feet at I74.  The overcast pretty much ended at KOSU.  Winds were out of the north (360°) at 6 knots, gusting 15, altimeter 30.17, temp 7°C.