On Wednesday, April 8, 2015 at 8:40:26 PM UTC-6, Ramy wrote:
Well, this is based on the assumption that training is the answer for everything. It may be the answer for inexperience pilots. The two pilots who bailed out over Reno in the last decade where both extremely experienced ATP/ex military pilots with tons of IFR experience. Sometimes **** just happens. This falls under the 99.9% safe rule. The 0.1% sucks when it happens. Luckily it ended well.

Ramy

Great pilots, no matter how experienced, know their training never ends. Yes, **** happens and when it does, all that ultimately matters is whether the skills brought to the task are adequate.

I also have several thousand hours of actual instrument time and what that experience taught me was that I should never place myself in a position where there was any possibility of entering IMC unless the aircraft was fully equipped and I was current and competent in using that equipment under actual IMC. Otherwise, all that experience counts for nothing.