(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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Lots of really good answers, but I think the short of it is:
You have lived with your body for more years than you have been peering at instruments, so when your body is saying everything is fine but your instruments are screaming you’re fucked, who are you going to believe?
IFR training teaches you to ignore your body and trust your instruments. It takes a good long period of study, serious self-discipline, and continuous practice to ignore your own body that’s never let you down before.
Flying on instruments is a complex science, but it isn’t particularly difficult if you have been properly trained and practiced.
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