Yeah, docs sometimes do stupid things in airplanes. But so does everybody if you read the NTSB reports.

I did a few more of these since. A couple impressions - number one I dont think this is that different than riding the ILS to the pavement which I've heard people do in an emergency, but it will EASILY keep you right centered over the runway. It is actually very similar to a video game. The runway is really small and there is illusion that you are nearer and higher (yes it is odd) to the runway than in reality. It works, again would save you from death.

I had my non-instrumented rated fellow pilot MD attempt to use it and it was disastrous. He couldn't maintain proper altitude while heads down (were going to use the MEF+500) and even attempting to get lined up was impossible. I was pretty surprised at how bad he was but he's older and it has been years (decades?) since he did the 3 hours of hood time. It would not work for non-instrument pilots as is unfortunately, need at least VNAV or something else to get you to the runway.