Great story Centaurus. Take note kiddies, honesty is always the best policy. Something else we seem to be losing in this day and age where nobody wants to take responsibility for anything anymore... :(

Lots of interesting viewpoints here.

A further problem with launching into your first flying job without proper instrument flying skills - and a plan to maintain them- is that you may unknowingly become an expert at performance flying. It's a common habit that many of us have, easy to develop in VMC and a trap in the Dry. Performance flying is when you move the controls until the performance settles 'just right'.

To fly IFR well you will have to replace performance flying with proper
Instrument Attitude flying and it can be very difficult to unlearn bad habits.
This is particularly true when the pressure is on - say in a nightmare Sim check - when we fall back on what we first learned. If your habit is performance flying then you will fall back to pushing and shoving the controls. If your habit is proper Instrument Attitude flying then you will do this when ****s are trumps, and that at least gets you to first base.

I know of pilots who discovered the scourge of performance flying on the pre employment Sim check and it didn't go well for them.

Apologies for sounding so dumb but what exactly is "Performance" flying as against flying an aeroplane normally? I had never heard of the term before. Is it something recently invented and how did it affect the bloke going for a simulator assessment? Why is it a `scourge`?:eek:

It's skipping to the "performance" without worrying about that annoying power+attitude...

Or, if I understand it correctly, its reacting directly to the guages rather than setting up, monitoring, adjusting, etc. ...