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Surely this is not complicated. Dr. Rockefeller didn’t put four other people at risk when they could have been socializing over breakfast until the fog burned off. Of course, this is a discussion where a lot of people are intent on ignoring the forest because it might get in the way of their...

Don't quote me out of context. I said that I think that a private pilot who takes off on a pleasure flight into a pea soup fog is a complete idiot. And I meant it. That happens to be based on living six months a year in a maritime environment where this kind of fog is a regular occurrence, and...

Forget go arounds, this turned out to be more like a merry go round (Typhoon problems in Hong Kong):

I made that very point in my first post in this thread, back on page one. Which means what? It means that if it was a mechanical failure - which is certainly consistent with the news reports - the pea soup fog would have made it impossible to make a controlled forced landing. There is every...

I plead guilty. My armchair opinion is that on a private pleasure flight only a complete idiot takes off into pea soup fog. And there are lots of things that people can do legally that are really, really stupid, this being one of them.

I know Newfoundland in the summer, not Florida. Yes, we get fog as late as 10 or 11, but usually it clears earlier. Meanwhile, we have a couple of good places to go for breakfast/socializing while waiting. There is not a chance in hell that I would have gotten on that plane, and if it was family...

I don't understand some of the comments. I spend my summers in a place that has regular maritime morning fog. If we're caught in it while driving, we drive at a snail's pace until we can see. We won't go out on the water to go fishing until it burns off. It usually burns off in 30 minutes to 90...

I think my point was that I need to know what is in the FAA materials and my plane’s manual. As it happens, I am doing a few other things. If you look at a recent thread that I started (https://www.pilotsofamerica.com/community/threads/differences-between-manual-flight-computers.107731/), you...

I’m disappointed that it was just ForeFlight and not the actual Metars.

Actually, I wrote that quite deliberately. I need to know the FAA materials (which are comprehensive and well written) and the handbook for my plane. I do not need to spend time and money supporting the US cottage industry in test preparation and “interactive” video tutorials, which are in fact...

Well I’m just a student pilot but I think that the Sheriff had it right. Let’s forget the disorientation scenarios and suppose that it was a simple mechanical failure on takeoff, which sounds entirely plausible, indeed probable. So you do a forced landing straight ahead or up to 30 degrees to...

A PLB will obviously broadcast your GPS position (that is the whole point of a PLB), but not typically give it to you. This is about bulk and waterproofing. That is why a PLB that has a screen that you can read your GPS position from is larger and heavier. I am not talking about Spot and...

I doubt that there is much difference between the European and U.S. tests. It's pretty much the same material. The one thing that I've noticed is that in the U.S., unlike Europe, there's quite the cottage industry selling test preparation. This probably appeals to young people for whom passing...

Man, you keep making it clear that you have not read this thread and don’t know about the issues that have been discussed. Frankly, I hope that you are never the captain of a commercial flight that I take. You have established in this discussion a complete inability to understand the discussion...

Given your comments in this thread, I wouldn’t fly with you if you paid me to do so. You keep shooting your mouth off while it’s obvious that you haven’t read this thread and know nothing about the issues that have been discussed.

Thanks for an education on the weight that I should give to the views of a pilot on the basis of his or her hours.

In other words, you have made about three posts in this thread, and claim to know a lot about the subject, but have nothing to say that is substantive. Maybe either contribute an actual view or stop wasting people’s time.

Great that you have lots of experience flying to the Bahamas. All the more reason for you to comment on the views expressed in this thread, which you have yet to do. If you have something to say about the views expressed in this thread, let’s hear it.

In other words, you have nothing to say about anything said in this thread. Sounds like you haven’t even read it. In fact, sounds like you’ve had one too many tonight.

Cool. What parts of what has been said in this thread about flying over the ocean do you disagree with, and why?