IFR or VFR? I got a powerful reminder to choose one set of rules or the other when I came close to flying into a skyscraper. A few summers back, I was returning to my home base of Somerset Airport (SMQ) in Somerset, New Jersey, from Martha's Vineyard at night in my Piper Archer. The forecast was for visual conditions, but the weather was deteriorating from west to east. Good VFR weather was predicted for most of my route; the lowest forecast ceiling was near my destination-3,000 broken at Newark at my arrival time.
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