-b- writes:

Sensorial clues supported by visual clues are quite different from the former
without the latter, as is widely recognized in the pertinent literature. Close
your eyes in VMC, and you're not really in VMC anymoe, are you. . .

If physical sensations were useful, you'd be able to fly with your eyes
closed. The fact that you cannot demonstrates that they are not useful.

About the best one can say about physical sensations is that they may alert
you to the fact that something has changed. That isn't terribly useful,
though, especially if you have kept your situational awareness to begin with.

Not to worry - people regularly get confused when presented with tasks they
do not comprehend.

It's a recall task, not a comprehension task, and few people have perfect
recall.