South coast letdown
Flying with a pilot who had a lifetime of flying but not IFR qualified. Flying along the coast towards Merimbula in a C172 Hawk XP, ended up above solid stratus. We knew we were over the ocean about 2 mile from shore, air was smooth. Pilot set up instrument fixation about 500' above the clouds and set a 500 fpm descent and about a half rate turn. It was relatively easy to maintain aircraft attitude as we descended through the soup, there were no surprises so g force was normal all the way, in the end the cloud was about 1000' thick and we came into clear air at around 2000'. I don't know if my pilot had previous experience descending through cloud but I felt confident in the approach and technique through the entire manoeuvre.