Anotherthing, in the days when UK ATCO Cadets got a full PPL course they also got a brief introduction to instrument flying, frasca simulator plus 2 shared cross country trips. On the cross country trips groups of 3 of us each flew one leg with an instrument approach at the end of it, I had the pleasure of a radar approach at Brum and an ILS at Ostend. We also spent time at BEA on the ROT and the Trident simulator plus fam flights. So we did get a small insight into life at the piloting sharp end.