A BE55 INSTRUCTOR RPTS HIS STUDENT'S DISORIENTATION REQUIRED HIS INTERVENTION TO STABILIZE THE FLT.

Narrative

WE DEPARTED ON A DUAL INSTRUCTIONAL FLT FROM ZZZ TO ZZZ1 ON A TWR ENRTE CTL IFR FLT PLAN. THE IFR STUDENT WAS FLYING THE ACFT. I WAS WORKING THE NAV AND COM RADIOS. WE WERE LEVEL AT 4000 FT MSL AND MY HIGH TIME STUDENT LOOKED COMFORTABLE AND IN CTL OF THE ACFT. WHILE BEING VECTORED INTO A 180 DEG TURN TO INTERCEPT THE FINAL APCH COURSE FOR OUR DEST. WHILE TURNING WE ENCOUNTERED A SMALL AMOUNT OF TURB ANY MY STUDENT OVERCTLED THE ACFT AND PUT US IN AN UNUSUAL ATTITUDE. DURING THIS TIME I WAS READING BACK OUR NEW HDG AND SETTING THE RADIOS FOR THE APCH. SEVERAL SECONDS PASSED. WHEN I LOOKED OVER WE WERE IN A DIVING R TURN AND WERE WELL BELOW OUR ASSIGNED ALT. I IMMEDIATELY TOOK CTL OF THE AIRPLANE AND RECOVERED FROM THE UNUSUAL ATTITUDE. I FOUND THE ACFT OUT OF TRIM AND DIFFICULT TO CTL FROM THE R SEAT. FROM MY PREFLT WX BRIEFING; I KNEW THAT WE COULD SORT OUT OUR PROBS BY CLBING TO VFR CONDITIONS ON TOP OF THE CLOUDS. I TOLD THE APCH WE NEED TO CLB AND REQUESTED IFR TO VFR ON TOP 10000 FT (SHOULD HAVE BEEN 10500 FT) WHICH SHOULD HAVE PUT US WELL CLR OF THE CLOUDS. WE THEN RECEIVED CLRNC TO THE ABC VOR AND A CLB TO 10000 FT. WE BROKE OUT OF THE CLOUDS AT 8000 FT MSL AND WERE ABLE TO VERIFY THAT ALL SYS WERE FUNCTIONING PROPERLY AND REQUESTED AN IFR CLRNC BACK TO OUR DEP ARPT. AFTER LNDG; I WAS ASKED TO CALL THE TRACON; WHICH I DID; AND EXPLAINED MY UNUSUAL ATTITUDE AND INST PROB. THE LESSONS I HAVE LEARNED FROM THIS ARE NEVER TAKE YOUR EYE OFF EVEN YOUR MOST COMPETENT STUDENT AND DECLARE AN 'EMER' AS SOON AS YOU REALIZE YOU ARE HAVING A PROB COMPLYING WITH THE CTLR'S INSTRUCTIONS AND YOUR CLRNC. THE CTLRS DID NOT KNOW WHAT MY PROBS WERE UNTIL I COULD TALK TO THEM FROM THE GND LATER. HAD I DECLARED AN EMER THEY WOULD HAVE UNDERSTOOD THAT I NEEDED TIME AND SPACE TO REORGANIZE THE COCKPIT FOR SAFE IFR FLT.