Since my own poor vandalised aircraft is grounded for the indefinite future I took the chance to start my IMC training at the weekend.
I'm also doing it in a 152 (though may use a PA-28 too later). After some general handling on instruments and a bit of VOR tracking we spent most of the time doing NDB tracking.
I can already see what I suspect my learning pattern is going to be:
1) Read the book
2) Fly the exercise and find that some of it works as I'd expected, other bits don't; some things I'd managed to forget in the day or so since reading about them, and some are entirely new to me.
3) Generally discover that I need to improve my mental juggling skills so that I can keep more balls in the air (and centred of course) at once.
4) Go home and read the same bit of the book again, finding that it makes more sense now
5) Practice the exercise on the PC flight simulator, where it mysteriously seems relatively easy. Why don't real aircraft have a 'Pause' button?
6) Return to (1)
Next lesson booked for Sunday afternoon, to be spent at Calais where there's apparently a nice cheap ILS.
Here's hoping for cloudy weather
