CFI oral intel Michael Ash <mike@mikeash.com> wrote in news:1212717258.920305
@web1.segnet.com:
> In rec.aviation.student K l e i n <kleing@> wrote:
>> If this worked reliably, it would be taught as a standard technique
>> for inadvertant VFR into IFR excursions. Hey, just throttle to idle,
>> hands off and wait for VFR to appear. But....this is not what is
>> taught. Wonder why???
>
> One reason that comes to mind is that you have no guarantee that the
> ceiling under your IMC condition is high enough to allow for recovery.
>
Well, "inadvertant flight into IMC" is almost always a push on regardless
scenario where the pilot gets lower and lower, often in inhospitable
terrain, so it'd be kind of useless in that anyway.
Bertie |