Artificial horizon Vs VSI instrument flying straight and level

[BEagle]

PelicanSquawk wrote:

Just to clarify, we did an instrument flight this early as the conditions were too poor for anything else. It was very much a “if you really want to go up we can do some instrument flying”.

I guessed as much. Students should not be taught IF until they have completed solo circuit consolidation at the very earliest, otherwise they will develop bad 'head in' habits to the detriment of sound visual l00kout.

When I was a CFI, I banned my FIs from teaching IF too early; I found that some of them were airline wannabees and would fly 'demo IF' trips including their own ILS approaches (for which the student paid) which achieved nothing more than free practice for their own IRs until I put a stop to such negative and rather fraudulent activity.