Originally Posted by
Pilot DAR
...The helicopter I flew from Alaska to Vancouver many years ago did not have an artificial horizon at all. This made the VFR flying much safer, as you were not at all tempted to creep up into cloud! You were automatically disciplined to remain actual VMC, no funny business/home made IFR.
Perhaps the same could be said of
not having an instrument rating. This effect is sometimes called the Risk Compensation Hypothesis, at least in road safety.