On Apr 4, 11:51 am, Mxsmanic wrote:
chris writes:
Whenever I fly on instruments on a sim it seems different to when I
did it for my license - the aircraft just continually seems to be
moving left or right or whatever, which meant a moment looking away
from my scan and when you look back the damn thing seems to be leaning
over... I had so much trouble just keeping it upright without getting
the leans that I imagine several years and no practise later I would
have even more trouble.

I had the same thing happen in the sim today; you just have to keep your eye
on the instruments. If there's nothing to see outside the window, there's no
reason _not_ to keep your eye on the instruments.

You just said I was to read my charts. That's not looking at the
instruments! Someone like me who has done the license requirements
and nothing since would probably have nothing but trouble if I took my
eyes off the instruments.

If you lose visual reference it's damn easy to get the leans, as I
found out when I did my PPL IF training

Leans or not, your instruments will tell you if you are in level flight.
Perhaps animals cannot ignore their intincts, but people can.


Comes down to training and practise. I have a little of the first and
not much of the second.

Back the way you came.. When flying near bad weather I keep looking
back to make sure my escape route is still open...

And what if it's not? What then?

You keep an eye on the escape route and if it starts to close in you
get the hell out of there..


Bad visibility doesn't always flow in from somewhere else. Sometimes it forms
right on the spot.

Well, as I understand it, the IMC that refers to is the rising terrain
and lowering cloud base, or an approaching line of crap.. Which looks
like a grey curtain stretching across the horizon.. If you can't
escape you can set down in a field before it nails you

What if you can't see the field?

If you are beneath lowering cloud base you are still visual, you just
can't proceed any further. If you see the **** approaching like a
grey curtain, you also have time to do something about it. You don't
just press on, fat dumb and happy, and fly into the ****.