Low Level IMC
I saw an interesting thing this morning at an Australian Day event. There was a bit of a show put on by a couple of civvy acft. I think the first acft was a Harvard – big noisy radial, plenty of grunt, about 220 Kts’ish. First pass - nice and low, vertical manoeuvre, IMC …. 10 secs later VMC, continued on – second manoeuvre, vertical, IMC …. 10 secs later VMC. From then on he remained VMC and reduced his vertical extension. I guess the cloud base was about 1000 ft.
In summary – Harvard (?), IMC, about 1000 ft AGL, pitching and rolling, attitudes greater than 90 degrees NU, rolling at greater than 90 degrees AOB. Big ba11s, small brains.