Folks,
Jaz24zzk's post has got it right. Re-read it!!
My comment about "178 seconds to live" referred to the basic premise of loss of control in IMC, for an insufficiently trained and current pilot, not the conditions of the study. As I thought I had made clear, my experience is that control is lost in less than one minute, it just takes a while to die.
Given the attitude so many of you display, trying to rationalize away the number of fatal accidents of VFR into IMC, you clearly believe it won't happen to you, because you are better.
Got news for you, you ain't ---- this is a great example of "You can always tell a pilot, but you can't tell him much".
And it is almost invariably a "him", I have always found female students far less gung ho.
Tootle pip!!