"Matt Whiting" wrote in message
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George Patterson wrote:

I feel that it's reprehensibly careless for anyone to do primary flight
training in IMC. It's a good idea during the latter stages of training
for the instrument rating.

And I think it is likewise for an instructor to give a primary student
only a few hours under the hood and then consider them prepared to exit
successfully an inadvertant encounter with IMC. A little time in the
soup for real is a real eye opener for a primary student. Makes one
much more respectful of one's ability at that point.

In the military, they say "You fight like you train". One purpose of
training is to make it as realistic as possible, hence the wet run courses
in basic training. Analogy - real IMC.