Andrew Gideon wrote in
online.com:

C J Campbell wrote:

You certainly have triggered mine. Every instructor I know up here
will fly in actual. Of course, given the attitude, I suspect that it
is simply that nobody wants to fly with you.

There's one FBO in my area where an instructor (or anyone else) would
need to be a little nuts to take the planes into IMC. That part of the
OP's complaint is, at least, somewhat credible (or at least possible; I
know nothing about the FBOs in his neighborhood).

- Andrew



The thing that makes it incredible is his inability to provide an actual
reason for why no instructor will take a plane up in actual.

Had he said that the equipment at his FBO was not up to par, there would
have been no question by the remote Flight School, all other things being
equal. I'm sure a bunch of the r.a. regulars would have suggested he
switch to a different FBO...

I could be wrong, but I suspect that most CFIIs prefer to give their IFR
students SOME actual before the training is over. I know several of the
instructors that I have worked with in the past believed strongly that
the sensation of actual is unique for someone who has sat behind foggles
for all of his training, and prefer to be in the right seat the first
time it happens to a student.

The thought of an instructor refusing to fly in actual with a pilot
training for IFR smells of a pilot with a reputation for being unsafe.
And if he doesn't have a reasonable explanation for it, he may never have
really asked, and is just "kicking tires"...