Thanks for the nice words peeps, I'll keep it coming "warts and all".
Rustle,
The 450 fpm climb is performance limited for our fully laden C152 in hot weather. The descent is a 90 kts cruise descent, which matched to a 450 fpm rate of descent gives approximately 3 degree glide slope.
Today I have mainly learnt that you don't do anything fast in cloud in terms of manouevers.
Secondly, you have to avoid a low to idling power setting in IMC in light aircraft because your suction lowers correspondingly, less suction to your gyro's means less stability for your AI and DI. We try to avoid power settings less than 1900 rpm which coincidentaly is used for the cruise descent so that the suction remains in the green band. At least that is what I have gleaned so far, but it is early days
Obs cop