Mxsmanic,

Your comments show utter cluelessness about instrument flying, I'm afraid.
It would help you if you understood how little you know about IFR flying.

But isn't it simply a matter of looking at the instruments and doing
what they say? Surely a person should be able to override distracting
sensations and trust the instruments, especially when he knows that
they are reliable.

"Knowing" is not all a human reacts to. "Surely" persons are NOT able to
override those sensations without ample training. This fundamental
difference between simulation and the real thing has been pointed out to
you many times before in this thread. So far, you chose to ignore that.

You just have to learn to ignore the sensation through sheer mental
willpower.

And you say that there's a lot of variation in this? Does it actually
prevent some people from becoming pilots? It seems straightforward,
even if it requires willpower.

Go try it.

Which other instruments will tell you this?

Turn and bank indicator, DG, compass.

But doesn't the compass drift as well?

No. Why would it?

So you are expected to trust instruments, but then not to trust them?

You're expected to corroborate one instrument's indications against the
others.


If two different instruments indicate two different things, how do you
know which one to trust? There isn't always a third instrument to
break the tie.

Yes, there is. Read a book on instrument flying.

I suppose I could deduce that I don't have the wings
level from a turn indicator or my changing heading, but how do I know
that it's not the heading that is changing inappropriately, or the
turn indicator that's broken?

Understand failure modes - and then it will all be easy.

I don't think instrument flight would pose a problem for me.

Your hubris is simply amazing! All that you have written before this
sentence shows a total lack of the essentials of instrument flight!

Have you really come here to learn something or just to annoy others by
showing your ignorance? How old are you?


--
Thomas Borchert (EDDH)