One of the haziest days I had experienced during my training (out of TEB). I distinctly remember commenting about it to my CFI once we got up. His (JFK Jr) accident was a low point for me as I finished up my training in the following weeks and took my checkride, but it really drove home some important points my CFI had been teaching me all along.
I was flying between Milwaukee and Holland MI and had nearly the same thing in haze...a false horizon from a cloud bank, and I kept turning north in my attempt to "level" with the horizon. Scary stuff until I figured out what I was doing.
Fly along a few miles offshore on a hazy night, like JFK Jr. did, and you might see lights in the distance which you know to be a familiar town on the shore. Only it's not; it's a boat just half a mile off your wingtip. And the disorientation insidiously begins.
I had a problem similar to that over southern Arizona one night, with perfect visibility! I got into a bank while I was fiddling with the avionics, and when I looked up, my mind could not make sense of what I was seeing. Thank heaven for my instrument training!
Show of hands -- How many others here besides me have started a quick turn at night to avoid a midair collision with a full moon?
Show of hands -- How many others here besides me have started a quick turn at night to avoid a midair collision with a full moon?
On the 1 year anniversary I got a call from someone, I think it was NBC, wanting to do a "1 year after" piece. I had worked with them extensively immediately after the accident since I was one of the few GA oriented "subject matter experts" at that time. I told them it was a rather unremarkable accident from an industry point of view and that there was no "1-year after" tale to tell. I think they'd expected some kind of revolution in the industry because their favorite son had perished.
Time filler.
Not me. In my case it was either Jupiter or Saturn. Probably Jupiter. Coming back from an XC about 1am, no moon, heading east, the "landing light" was at 12 o'clock and there was no relative motion. I started a turn, then realized what I was seeing.Show of hands -- How many others here besides me have started a quick turn at night to avoid a midair collision with a full moon?
I found it interesting, but there's no law that everyone has to like the same things on TV.
No but Obama issued an Executive Order to that effect IIRC.
Were you denied FF?
Hahahahaha
Distractions mostly is my guess. Maintaining attitude in a perfect world is not particularly difficult in most certified spam cans. There are a few individual examples that I would not fly in IMC (like one particular 172 that continually wants to bank and we aren't talking Benjamins here). That said, there are lots of folks that passed the PP cert ride who haven't added significant hood time and instrument skills are gone. Piloting skills are perishable, instrument skills definitely have a "use by" date for good reason.
Get yer instrument ticket 6PC. You own an airplane so it is time.
I'd say "can" rather than "must". In 15 minutes or less I can give you a pretty much foolproof method for recovering from unusual attitudes. It isn't upset training but it's easy to grasp and works in the real world. And it'll prolly stick with you for a long, long time.
I didn't say I'd show you. We hardly know each other.
Does PTS still exist? Has ACS taken over all?
