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Mikey
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Update: Video Recreation of Arizona Crash; New Questions Emerge
from Mikey
wrote 1 year 24 weeks ago
I just think it was bad planning. If you plot a straight line from Falcon to Safford you would miss the terrain initially, but you would come close to a few mountains en route. My guess is he was direct to San Carlos Apache, then down the valley to Safford. At night I go to (or send my students to) Florence Junction, you can follow the roads at night right to it. Stay on the road to Miami / Globe then down the valley (still over the road) down to Safford. You can even stay as low as 3500. I did my solo cross country to Safford from Gateway and I followed the roads the whole way. Even if you don't ask to enter the Bravo, please call the nearest controlling agency and request flight following, what can it hurt?
All my flight training was at Gateway, and I was an instructor at Falcon. Airspace, Bravo, Controllers, and Wildlife Areas; its all excuses. Remember when your instructor was sitting next to you, or reviewing your route before you went cross country, always think what would a CFI do?
Court Rules Cirrus Not Liable for Fatal SR22 Crash
from Mikey
wrote 43 weeks 4 days ago
Please refer to FAA FAR 91.3:
"91.3 Responsibility and authority of the pilot in command.
(a) The pilot in command of an aircraft is directly responsible for, and is the final authority as to, the operation of that aircraft"
AND FAA FAR 91.103:
"91.103 Preflight action.
Each pilot in command shall, before beginning a flight, become familiar with all available information concerning that flight. This information must include—
(a) For a flight under IFR or a flight not in the vicinity of an airport, weather reports and forecasts, fuel requirements, alternatives available if the planned flight cannot be completed, and any known traffic delays of which the pilot in command has been advised by ATC;
(b) For any flight, runway lengths at airports of intended use, and the following takeoff and landing distance information"
Nuff Said!
Prison Time for Pilots?
from Mikey
wrote 22 weeks 5 days ago
YOU WEREN'T THERE. I find it utterly disgraceful that anyone would comment on what anyone else did in a cockpit. You have no idea how much training or knowledge the guys in Brazil had (U.S. Pilots), you have no idea how the guys in Italy operate or what the procedures are for emergencies. Until your the PIC in an investigation or have made the judgement call in a similar situation, please keep the backseat flying to yourself.
Aviation accidents and tragedies should be investigated to improve safety, training, and the business as a whole, not to place blame.
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