On 2006-09-22, wrote:

It shoudl be *required* that every VFR pilot experience actual IMC in
the three hours as part of their VFR training, to recognize and see the
real dangers of IMC.

And isn't it amazing how you can be under the hood, fat and happy, then
enter a cloud and get disoriented?

he not purposely focused on the intruments, he wouldn't have know which
way was up. Never mind trying to handle the controls, it was
overwhelming just experiencing it.

Which is why the instrument rating is so rewarding. You start out barely
able to fly under the hood and by the end you fly while experiencing
multiple instrument failures during an approach.

--
Ben Jackson AD7GD

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