EridanMan writes:

Mastering control of the aircraft involves developing the 'conditioned
responses' you mentioned earlier. Learning to fly IFR involves
learning to adapt those conditioned responses to the IFR environment.

No, learning to fly IFR means _ignoring_ those conditioned responses, and
flying exclusively based on what the instruments say.

Furthermore, the conditioned responses vary by aircraft; learning one is not
terribly useful for another. And even the more general motion cues are
unreliable.

Ultimately, sensation is almost useless for flying. The real information
comes from visual cues (under VFR) and/or instruments (under IFR). If you
have neither of this, you're headed towards an appointment with destiny, no
matter how much practice you have with physical sensations.

Conversely, you _can_ fly without the sensations, as long as you have visual
cues and/or instruments.

And, if you have sensations _and_ visual cues _and_ instruments, the ones to
trust first are the instruments, followed by visual cues. The sensations are
not trustworthy, except to help you make coordinated turns or in a few other
very isolated circumstances.

Simply knowing what to look for on the gauges is _NOT_ enough, and I
think we would all appreciate if you would stop asserting such.

People fly safely and successfully every day just by looking at those gauges.
Nobody flies for more than a few minutes just by depending on sensations.

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