Originally Posted by
chopjock
nelly
I was taught never to enter the crap. But if I did I would be going slow and low enough to get back out of it in a slow, shallow decent.
Slowing down as the fog surrounds you, then suddenly the windscreen turns white. You try to keep it stable as the "navigator" next to you looking at his ipad tells you to head "that way a bit", but as you haven't been under the hood in ten years you struggle to keep the nose level.
Then the controls become sluggish and the aircraft begins to shake. Fortunately for your dumb a$$, just as the horn starts to blow, the ground begins to appear, not in front of you, but below, so you dump the collective and lower the nose,...again fortunate enough that you're in a valley so the ground is still slopping away from you giving you the room you need to recover!
Sure you could say that your "descent" got you out of IMC (though I wouldn't call VRS slow and shallow) but in reality it was just dumb a$$ luck you're still alive!