Originally Posted by
JetStudent
Just wanted to to share this article from NYMag, as it is well-written,
It might seem like that to a layman but it's not actually that accurate:
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A trained pilot can stay right-side up by paying attention to the instruments on his panel. But at low altitude over Calabasas, Bryant’s pilot also had another problem. He knew that the ground ahead was rising, and he couldn’t see it. To avoid hitting it, he could keep climbing, and hope that he’d gain altitude faster than the ground underneath him. Or he could slow to a stop and descend vertically until he popped out of the bottom of the cloud."
No, he couldn't. If he had tried to decelerate to a hover whilst IMC, he would have had some serious aircraft stability issues.