(Edit: “Rules,” not “Rating.” Sorry.)
Obviously I don’t know beans about flying, but I see many stories about inexperienced pilots who get disoriented flying through clouds, sometimes even to the point of flying upside-down. Aren’t there instruments on your control panel which tell you your speed, altitude, and orientation? How can you be plummeting towards the ground and not notice?
I hope this question isn’t so ignorant as to be insulting. I know flying is difficult and complicated and it’s easy to criticize from here on the ground. I wish I was skilled enough to know how to fly a plane. I just see many stories about accidents where inexperienced pilots seem to be making apparently ridiculous mistakes.
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As someone who’s only done a single discovery flight (+ a good bit of vr flight sim), I’m still a little confused.
In my flight I was paying attention to and relying on the instruments so much more than my eyes and feeling. Keeping your air speed, altitude, and orientation can only be accurately accomplished with instruments. The only visual reference you have is the horizon. But you have the turn coordinator (or whatever it’s called… bank angle thingy). So I have a hard time understanding how someone could end up nose down or stalling. It’s all right in front of you. Pilots, help me understand the issue here. It seems easy.
Again, almost no experience. But I’d like to get it.
FWIW, I fly a paraglider quite a bit. The only instruments I use are a phone for maps/tracking and a variometer that beeps to signal altitude gain when finding a thermal.
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