<<KSLN local flight, 1 daytime landing, PIC 70 hours, Cross country ? ,
IFR ? 
(he was never in the clouds!), Night ?.>>
-he was IFR and canceled once he had the airport in sight.  It was
awesome to watch.  They had trouble getting the nose gear to go green
and some hydraulic fluid was leaking from one of the main wheel wells.

Chris,

 

Yeah, it looked like the left landing gear was leaning a bit - could have just been perspective.

 

Now wait, filing IFR doesn't mean it goes in your log.  He had to be on an IFR flight plan to be flying between FL 18 and FL 60.   I have been on a VFR crossing Lake Michigan where enough haze totally obscured the horizon even though Meigs was calling 5 miles visibility and I recorded IFR flight time - flying solely by reference to instruments.  I haven't been high enough yet to consider if the curvature of the earth is an adequate horizon for level flight.  I wonder what it looks like at 45000 feet, at night, over the ocean?

 

Grayhawk