Originally Posted by
Genghis the Engineer
Jan - 180 whilst remaining VMC - yes. However, I was involved in a simulator study a while ago with a variety of PPLs and commercial pilots who we put in various unexpected situations in a sim. When we introduced an inadvertent flight into cloud, over 50% of the PPLs who tried to do a 180 out of it lost control and ended up in a stall/spin. Any pilot, of any experience level, who kept the wings level and either climbed, descended or flew through it survived the experience.
So no Cumulus Granitus in your simulator, and no cloud too high to climb out of...