That's a fair statement that I didn't consider because of my own
experience.

It largely depends on what the student's experience level is. When I
started my IFR training, I had around 200 hours of flight time, mostly
PIC, mostly Cross Country. When I sat down with my instructor and the
syllabus, the first two flights took us through something like Lesson #22
because controlling the plane to IFR PTS tolerances was not an issue.

However, someone who has 75 hours of flight experience of which 65 hours
were training for his PPL is probably not going to be able to start with
the IFR training, and would probably not be a good candidate for
significant flight in the soup. (Flight through some a layer of Scattered
Cumulus might not be a bad thing even at that experience level though.)



Journeyman wrote in
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In article , Judah wrote:

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.

I've talked to CFIs who moved to Seattle specifically to get IMC time
for themselves. Of course they'll train in IMC.

OTOH, I'm not sure how eager a CFI would be taking someone up IMC
during the first, oh, 1/3 of the training, where you're just doing
basic attitude flying by instruments.

I remember days early on my IFR training, where we'd file to VFR on
top, get through the cloud layer, do the maneuvers, then shoot an
instrument approach back to base.


Morris