(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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Because a particular instrument only gives partial information. You look at this one then the next then the next then back to the first. Then the radios, map, other charts, engine, other crew, think of how you’re going to the next thing, figure out a fuel burn calculation, listen to a radio message to/from someone else, picture what they’re doing and where they are. Does it affect you?
It’s a lot to do all at once and if you see an instrument that’s wrong… what’s wrong how to fix it. What do you have to do to support that thing.
And all the while your body is lying to you. It feels like you’re falling but you’re actually level. This has to be level, no wait we’re turning. When you get behind you want to believe what you feel. Stress rises. It doesn’t feel like reading instruments, interpreting, combing information from several to get a picture, making a decision. There’s no time I can feel it I’ll just… and you’re upside down things are getting worse. Repeat.
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