helieng:
I agree with you completely and hope any PPL(H) holders I come across or eventually teach, will have enough common sense to realise it is only an appreciation and nothing else. Only meant to teach a 180 backtrack and out of possible cloud with reference to instruments.
If I admit now that whilst hour building in Florida a few years ago, myself and another pilot got caught out by low level fog which really did seem to appear from nowhere, at night, over swamp land. We had a combined total time of approx. 200 hours and in an R22, were lucky to not end up very dead. It certainly brought home to me the things that can go wrong.
The point I'm trying to make here is that even if we were fairly good with instrument flying, the speed with which everything seemed to go wrong in the R22 wouldn't have given us time to revert to instruments and put our "training" to good use. We survived by doing a very hasty 180 but I wouldn't recommend trying it out to anyone.