Mxsmanic wrote:
bdl writes:

Not having any instrument flight experience you are not qualified to
evaluate your instrument flying ability.

I am qualified to evaluate my ability to handle activities of this
type without prior experience, however.

Which activities would these be?

The tacit assumption in your post seems to be that everyone is bad at
instrument flight by default, and can only become good by doing it in
an actual aircraft. I'm not convinced that this is true. Some people
are able to fly an aircraft competently under VFR with no prior
instruction; they simply happen to be good at that sort of thing. The
same may also apply for IFR.

You don't sound to sure.

So your position is that there are people that are naturally good at
flying, and also naturally good at flying IFR, and that you are one of
these enlightened souls because you've got so many hours in a simulator
in IFR conditions (albeit at a constant 1-g) and that ability would
naturally translate to a real aircraft in real IMC.

Oh wait, you did crack up one of your simulated aircraft didn't you.
That CFIT you mentioned.