Originally Posted by
Rarife
Guys, you really say that there are PPL pilots out there who can not fly rate one turn under hood just with instruments? I understand they can not fly departures, arrivals, approaches and all that serious IFR things but simple turn?
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Its not that simple!
U turn to safety is fine in theory
other factors such as turbulence emotional adrenelin kick in
and the way back thru the sucker hole may have closed off
I remember in more recent tests drifting off into uncommanded turns will fiddling with the comms panel
scanning takes practice practice practice
and now it is mandatory to demonstrate low and slow down low
for obvious reasons
IFR is a skill that you quickly lose if you dont regularly practice or exercise in flight
its why recency is a legal requirement in all classes of IFR
and a highly reccomended activity if we arecall being honest with ourselves
By the way after all that is said here
i profess to have chickened out of IFR flying after seeing errors develope in my flying that all the training in the world did not correct all there to see on flight radar
everyone stalks flight radar now as you saw with the crash of the c130
it was on tv within the hour
altitude heading speed and rate of descent
take a look at your last flight type in tail number its all there to see especially the crashes
Angel Flight vfr into imc Mt Gambier for one
Angel Flight near Warracknabeal results shown to us in a CASA safety seminar was sobering evience to see
nothing excuses that sort of pilot behavior
nothing