(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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Stand in the middle of a large flat floored area (like a basketball court)
Face at a specific point, close your eyes, block your ears and walk until you think you are there (be sure it’s at least 100 steps)
Before you open your eyes you are 100% sure you are where you think you are. But imagine a little thing in your brain saying no your 5 steps to the left, and 3 steps short.
Do you take the 3 steps forward or trust your senses that you are where you think you are?
Thats flying ifr but only in 2d (front/back, left/right)
In flying there’s a 3rd, and are bodies (mainly our ears) are very easily tricked into believing our orientation, and our eyes are what correct for this. In IMC your eyes tell you are level because the dash in the plane is level. But outside is just white, it’s not until you can see horizon that you realise how wrong you were.
In the same way as you open your eyes and find your not where you thought you were on the court.
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