Recently had a 200 hr R44 pilot as a passenger on an IFR flight. B****r all viz from VToss to DH on the ILS. His words were "how the f*** did you do that? there is no way I could ever even attempt flying in that!" Before departure he had been going on about taking over if I couldn't cope, as soon as we went into cloud he had vertigo, the leans and total spatial disorientation. This guy has built up his 200 hours in a very short time and did his instrument appreciation quite recently. He had done all of it behind foggles, which as he said you can still cheat. The real thing shook him badly. He now understood why his instructor had said to him that flying into the white fluffy stuff would kill him and that the instructor would rip him limb from limb afterwards.
I'm all in favour of instrument appreciation being taught in the PPL syllabus, but make more of it. There are too many unnecessary accidents and too many broken people at the moment. I well remember my first lesson in IF on the 300. My instructor laughed his socks off when I did a full 360 turn without noticing.