I seem to remember reading somewhere in this newsgroup that some
instrument rated pilots felt IFR was in fact easier than VFR. My
limited experience, some 10s of hours a year in IMC, with a rated and
current pilot is that his workload is very much under control. Most
times in IMC controller instructions come at most every few miles in
an approach, ditto departure. I'd enjoy hearing the opinions of others
who fly single pilot single engine instruments a lot.

On Jul 7, 11:55 am, Larry Dighera wrote:
On Sat, 07 Jul 2007 15:18:34 -0000, wrote in
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Why would anyone with a few hundred hours of time or more resist doing
the little extra training?

Lack of ability and self-confidence?

Single-pilot IFR can be one of the most difficult tasks a person can
perform.

I once wrote in 1998:

"For me, IFR flight is a lot like playing a game of Chess in the
blind while juggling three balls in the air and maintaining a
running conversation at a noisy cocktail party. You have to
mentally visualize the position of the "pieces" on the "board,"
continually monitor and interpret a myriad of arcane instruments
and make corrections to keep the airplane shinny side up, all
while constantly attempting to pick out the ATC communiques
intended for you from the rest of the "guests'" conversations. To
this add the _stress_ of the consequences of losing the game
(death). (Of course, this analogy fails to consider weather,
turbulence, flight planning, interpreting charts and plates,
tuning radios and OBS settings, equipment failures, ....)

Single-pilot IFR aircraft operation in the ATC system in IMC
without the benefit of Global Positioning Satellite receiver,
auto-pilot, and Active Noise Reduction headset, is probably one of
the most demanding things you will ever do."