anyone have any tips on how to feel more comfortable while in IMC?

Are you talking about getting the leans?

If so get more frequent exposure to it with someone else in the cockpit. Get a very good cross check going, it is paramount. You will get use to it.

pilotincommand wrote:anyone have any tips on how to feel more comfortable while in IMC?

It's like women, the more you do it the more comfortable you'll get.

Keep your head on the instruments at all times, don't look outside, this will quickly alleviate any sensory issues. I love looking outside and getting the tumbles but I also have AP to keep me out of trouble.

Lurch

Put a hood on and pretend your still with your instructor.

ywgflyboy wrote:Put a hood on and pretend your still with your instructor.

+1

Putting a hood on is about as realistic of flying in IMC as humping a blow up doll is to get experience of the real thing.

Exactly my point/joke. Put the hood on to forget your IMC. I was just trying to be a sarcastic prick as always!

I need a pump for my blow up. Every time I take it er out and start blowing her up I pass out. I dread the day someone walks in on me passed out on the floor with her legs wrapped around my head.

I thought you were serious.

One never knows what pilots will believe.

<groan>

Boy does that remind me of a story, NOPE not the IFR part, but the DOLLIE part...

Bought one of those for a joke at a guy's retirement dinner.... sheesh, we didn't know it was in a fancy restaurant.... dang! But, we propped her up on the leather sofa by the big stone fireplace... There were lotsa fire people there, so she didn't stand out too bad in her yellow and green Nomex.......

Okayy, almost time to whisk her in to the big dinner hall, to interrupt the sappy goodbye speech.... and she was deflating! She was sliding down the sofa, ohh, grab her QUICK, before any of these rich people SEE her...

I leaped over (I was younger then), grabbed the Deflat-O-Doll, and hid down behind the couch, frantically pulling up her Nomex to try to er, uhm, get her back to normal.... and who peers over the back of the couch but the head waiter guy..... obviously IMPRESSED as HELL..... <groan again>.....
I can still see his face.... eyes bugging out of his head!

He tried to throw us out but we begged and pleaded, got her blown up, crashed the dinner, then headed for the bar.....

and Yeah, I KNOW, I hijacked the IFR part........

Just wanted you to know, pilots ARE dedicated (sometimes).........

These thread drifts are more entertaining than the flying part.