What are you suggesting? Spatial disorientation is very real when flying IFR. It tricks your brain and you must trust instruments even when you feel like they are all wrong. At night its even worse. The problem is letting your ego or some paying passenger lead you to flying into zero vis near terrain just because ‘gotta get there’.
All to get there 10 minutes faster.
In Army flight school we had it drummed into us,
“BELIEVE YOUR INSTRUMENTS!!”
Those who heeded had no problems. Inside a TH-13T when inadvertent IMC made it look like the inside of a light bulb, the instruments told a different story than the seat of one’s pants.
“You have 178 seconds to live” should be required viewing by all pilots.
8,577 TT with 1,250 in the S76. 10 years with the company. Instrument rating. CFI; CFII (Helo? Was he current IFR? Doesn’t say). Current biennial with EuroSafety as of May, 2019.
Sorry, guys - he seems a bit too long in the tooth for spatial disorientation. He ain’t no rich kid out over the water at night making a turn to final. And what the hell is this: “Zobayan was not authorized to fly in heavy clouds”? Was this a company restriction? Or was he non-current IFR?
Me? I’m gonna wait for the final NTSB report. (My quals? Type rated - ATP - in 707/720/737/757/767. 18,000+ total time. Air Force trained; retired airline pilot / line check airman. Current CFI/CFII.)