FlarePath wrote:Get onto instruments straight away and initiate a gentle descent: if this rapidly brings you back to VMC. level off and turn into the circuit and do a low level circuit and land.
First priority is to fly the aeroplane and ideally to note immediately the height at which you entered IMC.
then, while keeping on instruments fly straight and level
Ignoring the smart ar se sky gods, giving all this instrument advice to a non instrument rated pilot........
Isn't prevention better than cure Doc.. tell the patient not to fly in Carp WX....
OK FlarePath :I'll bite just the once: PPL training allows for instrument appreciation: I've no way of knowing whether OP had reached this stage.
I hope the thrust of my post was not to advise on extended instrument flying but to make the best of a bad job, get out of IMC as safely and quickly as possible and onto the ground using whatever skills/instruments he had at his disposal..
At this point in the flight the AH is your friend, IR or no : ignore its message at your peril.
Talking to somebody is best left till he'd got himself together , you know ' aviate, nav..................................
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I'd leave the discussion of the wisdom of taking off into IMC until he was safely on the ground, had changed his underpants and had had a cup of tea and a Mars bar.
What would be your advice, FP, to the question posed in OP?
'Can't help you mate, tough sh it,
you shouldn't have taken off in the first place' ?
Hands up the smart ar ses who would advise 'Nah, you're not instrument rated, don't bother with them'
Peter
PPL IR