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On Feb 16, 8:46 pm, Dudley Henriques wrote:

Instructors who teach stall "feel" are still out here, but you have
to spend some time finding the right ones.
When you find a CFI who tapes up the ASI and pulls the circuit
breaker on the stall warning horn to teach you to "feel" the
airplane...GRAB THEM, you've found the right one :-))

I have hear a few different people on this ng say things like this.
And yet if you fly by feel in an incursion into IMC, it kills (or can
kill) non instrument rated pilots. Am I missing a step here? Do you
have to learn by feel before you can learn by instrument?

In the case of my training, by the time I soloed, use of the instruments
was well understood. I had other "fortunate" experiences before I soloed,
such as having a vacuum pump failure. I didn't even notice it until the AI
was pretty far out of whack with the outside picture. If you're paying
attention to what's going on outside, I don't think it's all that easy to
inadvertently fly into IMC.

Neil