I have a feeling he started the turn in marginal VMC and then went inadvertent shortly thereafter. You will get the leans immediately and have to force yourself to believe the instruments as the turn now becomes your "straight and level". It takes A LOT of will to force yourself to commit to what the the attitude indicator is telling you. I experienced this first hand many years ago. I transitioned to instruments, took my eyes off them momentarily and was right back in the turn. Would have sworn on my mother I was level. Got things right again, started a climb and popped out on top. I was only at about 400' when the fun started, Quite a bit of pressure to know if you screw this up, you're dead. It's a shame all he had to do was hit the heading bug and ALT and then start a climb. If the heading bug wasn't centered, center it. The force trim probably would have saved him, too but I'm thinking most of his flying was hand flying without it. Too bad he didn't have more training.
Last edited by helonorth; 18th Feb 2021 at 00:03.