ADM and Proficiency
I found “Improve Your ADM” in the February issue by Douglas Boyd, Ph.D. to be an excellent article (although I particularly like statistics). Regarding instrument-rated pilots launching VFR into MVFR, a number of instrument-rated pilots I know aren’t comfortable going up into actual. One might wonder if the underlying cause of both those accidents and the reluctance is pilots who might be current but aren’t truly proficient.
We’ve seen multiple rotorcraft instrument flights end unfavorably, probably due to a lack of proficiency—which could be quite difficult to obtain in VMC in a helicopter considering the multiple views to the outside.
