A call to all instructors here.
I do a lot of IMC training at an airfield where the approaches and the IAF are NOT in controlled airspace and the airfield does not have radar. This is the case at many fields in the UK, so you find yourself bumbling around with the screens up, teaching, often in poor vis or even in IMC when someone calls up to track via the beacon VFR. The controller cannot refuse them so suddenly you need eyes in the back of your head.
The call to instructors:- well please do not teach students to transit IF recovery lanes just because it is a straight line on their plog. I go
if my student does this and then does not request a ATC clearance. From their point of view it is bad airmanship and they do not want to hit an IFR training Seneca on the ILS with its screens up.