On May 18, 10:40*pm, Dudley Henriques wrote:

I didn't mean to sound overly critical. It would be my wish that you
would possibly consider some residual reading on the extremely important
issue of physical sensation and IFR flight.
It's never too late to alter one's approach on something this critical.

You are right, and I fully understand you and Robert about ignoring
leans and other erroneous UNSOLICITED feelings incurred in flight and
one MUST TRUST THE INSTRUMENTS when that happens. I am more talking
about expected feelings resulting from my input of power ONLY.

Yanks and banks as stated earlier as one cannot do this without
instruments in IMC and every text book covers this well...

I am the first one to acknowledge the problem is there with the inner
ear stuff, and have actively taking up VFR and instrument students
inside IMC so they can see it will kill them if they don't respect
it. Their reactions have been priceless and equally the same, they
(VFR pilots) won't touch a cloud.

Drifting a little here, the biggest flaw which fortunately did not
happen to me is that I am seeing way too many instrument pilots
getting their IA rating without touching a cloud in conducting
approaches. That bothers me the most. My instructor had me go down
to ILS minimums so when I did my first solo instrument flight with
1000 foot ceilings, it really was a non event. EXCITING yes!

It's just too important for anything else. I learn every day. You will
as well. We're both better pilots for this.

And it's exchanges like this that we learn from each other :-) I been
away from the student group for some time (first post I believe was in
1991 for me) because of the noise level and just thought I would pop
in to see if it was reduced and it hasn't changed I see.

And most importantly to me, is EVERYTIME I walk on the ramp to my
plane, I am in learning / student mode. NOTHING is taken for granted
by this pilot from preflight to tie down. It's only AFTER I put the
plane to bed by tying it down have I stopped flying the plane. I
believe most people believe they stopped flyiing the plane when they
shut down the master..

I go further......