Jose wrote in news:HP8bh.16805$9v5.4762
@newssvr29.news.prodigy.net:

but if you
never had to keep the plane upright at the same time, it is enough to
make you want to climb back out of that cloud layer to where you can
see a real horizon.

Then you weren't ready for the checkride.

Aren't you beeing a little hard on the person???

Sounded like he was "one week" fresh off the block and first time alone in
IMC.

Quite a bit different experience knowing he was the only one to bring
himself back to terra firma AND nobody to rescue him sitting in the right
seat....

And by the end description, sure sounded like he passed his first time solo
IMC experiences with flying colors.

Allen