Flying Blind
I am having flying lessons at Redhill and hope to go solo real soon. Recently my instructor and I went to an airfield other than Redhill to do our circuits and this introduced elements of navigation at the same time. However, there was a particular element that scared the life out of me. We departed Redhill and rapidly ascended to 2500' to intercept an Ockham radial. Before we contacted Farnborough for radar (and switched the transponder to whatever they wanted), I flew into cloud. What scared me was that without radar advice or being identified on a controllers screen, I was flying through cloud and a mid-air could have resulted. I didn't get a chance to discuss it with my instructor afterwards as he needed to rush off to do another lesson. It was, in truth, a brief period in the unknown and I'm probably over reacting. My instructor didn't seem bothered in the slightest. But then he's just got his IR...
Does this sound odd or just normal procedure??
Thanks in advance
Nigel