I currently hold an ATP-ASMEL CE500, DA-10, DC-3, COMM: AS&MES, Rotorcraft Helicopter, Glider, Sport Pilot Gyroplane. CFI ASMEI, CGI AE, Flight Dispatcher, CTO, Remote Pilot. and I have flown 95 different kinds of aircraft. When I was young and eager I would go trying to find a cloud to fly through, the older I got the more I avoided clouds, rain, and other forms if idiocy that has ended up killing a lot of uninformed pilots as to the fact Mother Nature lets us fly through some pretty nasty stuff most of the time but sooner or later will swat anyone down for pushing the limits of both man and machine.
I remember back in 1964 as a student pilot in a Cessna 150 at DPA, runway33 doing touch and go’s trying to put in l my 1 hours of flight time. It was snowing and it got heavier and heavier. Soon I could only see straight down so I flew out to this farm house, them turned 90 degrees and flew to this road, then turned 90 degrees and flew to a lake, then turned 90 degrees and flew to the airport. round and round I went until the control tower came on the radio and asked “N3539J Dupage Tower, are you still in the pattern”. My answer was “Affirmative N3539J” to which they said, on your next landing make it a full stop and taxi back in. Let us know when your on the ground. Only God keeps uninformed fools and nincompoops like me alive. I landed and taxied in thinking it was great fun flying in snow where I could hardly see anything but almost straight down. Since then I have ventured into bad weather only to regret it later and question my sanity. I guess I must be doing something right after venturing the air for 56 years and only one student has had an incident.