212Man:
In any check pilot course I've had; a momentary excursion caught by the candidate and corrected is not a fail and my not affect the overall assessment of the flight if every thing else went well.
What an examiner will do if the flight is marginal is to use that excursion as a reason to "FAIL" the candidate if he is not comfortable with the overall performance of the flight.

IHL, that's what I was saying: lots of candidates think the limits are the be all and end all, but the examiner looks at a lot more than limits in isolation. They are a guide to examiners, not to the candidate!

Laggie

Your profile doesn't say if you have actualy flown a helicopter. Many people think that they have the ability but when it comes to sitting in the seat with the controls in their hands they freeze or overcontrol.

The usual failure during training is reaching ones mental capacity to assimilate all the information coming in. During critical phases of IMC flight information can arrive from many sources, eyes for the all instruments, ears for the radio and the dreaded inner ear giving you the leans where you head erroneously tells you one thing while the instruments tell the truth.

I have seen good VFR pilots come apart under the stress of IMC - they have spare mental capacity while flying VFR but not enough when in IMC.

The only way you can tell if you have the ability is to try - unfortunately it can be an expensive way to find your limits

332M

Where do you think I got my personal title from??? :}

I had just mastered the art of hovering the damned thing, when my instructor asked me to call up Tower and request a right hand circuit northside. I pressed the button. "XXX Tower, Request right haaaa...... oh ffffuuuucccck". To which my instructor added, "XXX Tower, we can't hover AND talk just yet!"

THAT is when I learned about capacity and, until you've been in the situation, I don't think anyone can predict how they will react! Jeez, I'm a girl; I would never have believed that talking would ever be a problem!!

Cheers

Whirls