Instrument student: We were coming back to KSEE gillespie in san diego after doing his long IFR cross country, which went really well and we were shooting the LOC 27 in at like 11:00 at night. The locolizer brings you in through the mountains and the minimums are like 1540. The ceiling was overcast at 1700. No biggie, so we get cleared for the approach and the first step down is from 4500 to 2700. When you get to 2700 feet, just from experience shooting the approach in VFR, you get real close to the mountains. Maybe 5 6 hundred feet. Well as Im crosschecking his set up coming up to SAMOS (2700) I looked up and he blew through 2700 and was on his way past 2400 at about 900 FPM, remember we are in the OVC layer and cant see shat, "My controls, WTF are you trying to do to us?" was what came out of my mouth. I could see what looked like street lights beneath us, kinda just white blothes in the clouds. Sucked the whole seat up that day. Still walk funny from it I think... Just scary not knowing whats in front of you and knowing that you are really low. That was the worst one Iv had.
Also had my fair share of crazy landings, spins, and the normal stuff.
Good thread...