Helimutt
Thank you for self-moderating your earlier post.
In regard to your most recent post when you write; "My experience is that most people, never having experienced it, want to slow down once IMC and instinctively pull aft cyclic, losing airspeed and climbing."
My assumption therefore is that you must be an IRI(H) or IRE(H) yet your public profile doesn't include this. My logic for this assumption is that the only time a civilian instructor gets to fly IMC 'legally' with other pilots to gain the experience you quote is when conducting IR training. How much IR instructional experience do you have? Are your comments based on instructing on an R22 or similar as part of the JAR syllabus in VMC/foggle conditions or is your experience based on your own reactions to the first time you flew in actual conditions?
The reason for my questioning is that I don't know you personally, or your experience, as I suspect most on the forum don't. I would like to get an idea of your background so myself and others can make a judgement call on how seriously to take your comments and advice.
My own experience of having flown non-stabilised helicopters in the UK military in actual instrument conditions as a student, line-pilot, instructor and examiner is that there is no standard reaction - other than WHEN a non-instrument experienced pilots' scan breaks down in IMC, loss of control of the aircraft is inevitable.
JJ