"Brad Z" wrote:
Out of curiousity, do any of you conduct partial panel training in actual
instrument conditions? When I did my training, my instructor elected not to
cover instruments in the soup. Do you do this? Why or why not?

I think it's a bad idea. It's one thing to practice partial-panel
unusual attitude recoveries, it's another thing to trust your life to
being able to do one for real in IMC (especially considering that in
most planes, the person sitting in the right seat can barely see the TC).

Even if you recovered fine, you'd probably still have a clearance bust
to explain away.

What would you do if your TC died on you? Without the DG and AI for
cross-check, by the time you figured out something was wrong, it could
well be too late to recover.