bumper wrote:

At the least, I recommend renting an instructor and power plane for a good
dose of under the hood time followed by some"unusual attitude" recovery on
partial panel.

Better than nothing, but not the real thing. There's a huge difference
between partial panel flying in a power plane (I like to call them
flying airbrakes) and a modern slippery glider.

The only valid method to learn instrument flying is to equip the back
seat of a two seater with the gyros and install a curtain to obstruct
outside view, in my opinion.

Stefan