When i was gaining experience in my first turbine airplane, I was checking the weather for our next flight, and my high-time, former airline captain mentor-pilot walked in joking that in the airlines, they used to say checking the weather wasn't worth much because, heck, we were going anyway! On the very next leg, we battled 100+knot headwinds, diverted because of low fuel, and then made a circling approach to minimums at night in a snowstorm at an airport in the mountains and rolled to a stop covered in ice. It was a memorable and pretty exciting experience for both of us, and I sure learned a lot-mostly about what not to do. I'm pretty sure that my mentor gave up on that casual approach to weather planning on the spot.
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