CRYSTAL !!! more ......... or less....
very funny .... Ha Ha ... hahaha
.... but there
is a serious point in there.....
somewhere......
IM(most)HO
I'd just add:
If you are in the 80% who do, and you don't know it, you think the 20% are stupid when they may well not be.
If you are in the 80% but get yourself in the do do any way - then you probably are 'being stupid'...
If you are dead already - there's an 80% chance you were a member of the 20% and you had no idea that you were in the 20% until you found yourself screaming in terror for your mother on the transmit button .... utterly bewildered as to how this 'happened to' you ... you were probably in class 4 (below)
... the training world probably let you down
... if you've been in that situation and luckily missed the ground when you fell out of the sky please share the experience - so that perhaps others are saved by it....
There are clearly different views on how to solve this problem:
1 All helicopters should be stabilised and pilots should hold some type of IMC proficiency. (CAA/DVE study?)
2 Pilots should ensure they stay VMC (me) (5hrs IRF is good for your flying but not a solution to this problem)
3 IIMC is just a fact of life and 5 hours training in IRF should ensure that pilots can make a 180 on instruments (CAA/mil?)
4 Pilot should choose conditions where it is less probable that they encounter IIMC (Crab?)
... is that fair?