eyeinthesky - Not much else to add except that the note about descending into Shoreham 250'agl has a certain tinge of "Cowboy" in it? That instructor would have been nailed to the wall if he had done that at my club. I got a rollocing for coming back from a lesson and legally breaking cloud from a PAR after an IMC lesson 50' above minima. The point was that I shouldn't have allowed the flight to have got that close. Why had I not landed earlier when the base was dropping. Poor airmanship, and lesson planning was my offending items at that coffee and biscuits meeting with the boss. Can't imagine what the instructor on this flight was trying to prove to his student, except how to kill themselves.