His Dudeness
totally agree and there is a mental gap between something going wrong and the brain working out what? I had a ASI fail in IMC in a twin.
You see the airspeed falling down towards the stall and all your instincts are to push forward and add power. Your brain then starts to work logically and you look at things like the GPS groundspeed, attitude , power settings and wind noise and you work it out.
Great in my situation at 4000 feet in IMC not so great at a couple of hundred feet above the ground IMC in fog.
And please I am not suggesting this was an ASI problem as we don't know but just one of many problems that could have occurred and one which any pilot taking off into fog? very low cloud should be aware of and not just rely on their instincts? A slight instinctive push at 4000 feet you have room to play with the same IMC in fog at 200 feet before the rational brain kicks in you get a face full of trees
Pace
Last edited by Pace; 17th Oct 2015 at 16:01.