Instrument training

"xxx" wrote in message
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I've got about 6 hours now and find it not the slightest bit
fun.

Who said training had to be fun? Instrument training is damned hard work,
not least because just as you got the hang of this flying lark and started
to be able to relax a little bit, some idiot came along, stopped you looking
out of the windows, gave you a shedload of knobs and dials to understand,
stuffed the aircraft into a ridiculous attitude, and said: "Get out of that
without killing us both". The point is your next question.

Can anyone remind me why I'm inflicting this on myself?

Because once you're certificated to do it, you can do proper flying, and in
fact most of it won't happen in cloud. There's nothing worse than bumbling
about in the clouds, and you'll want to do it as little as possible.
Instrument certification gives you the ability to go and play on top where
the sun always shines, to be confident on days when the weather report says
something other than CAVOK, to navigate without having to constantly look
out of the window, try to identify what you're flying over and see if you've
been blown off track, and so on. Who cares if you never have to do an ILS
approach down to minima - it's just great being able to potter back home
from somewhere at 5000' in almost empty sky, then amble down through the
clouds and pop out at 2,000 feet for a conventional visual approach.

D.