(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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You have to do some IFR exposure as part of your VFR training, maybe an hour or so. You put a hold on inflight so you can only see your instruments and the instructor will pitch and yaw the aircraft. Then you have to level it, and do a 180 turn. This is in case you fly into a cloud and you need to get out asap.
Let me tell you, it’s HARD to ignore your body senses and override it with your instruments. And it’s exhausting. Even pilots with IFR training must continue to do it to stay current with the rating.
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