Linux, Avionics, and spins

[Jerry Feldman]

I respectfully disagree. While his aircraft most assuredly had an excellent 
instrument package, he was a low time pilot. When working toward the 
Instrument rating, you are really drilled in unusual attitude recovery, but not 
for a private pilot's certificate. 100 hours is not a lot of hours. I have seen 
more experienced pilots make stupid decisions because they were running 
late. As an example, in my unit in Viet Nam, 2 pilots were returning from a 
mision later than they had planned. They were near An Khe, which is on a 
1000 foot plateau heading east to QuiNhon, which is sea level. The 
Monsoon had clouds obscring the mountains separating the plateau with 
the coastal plain. The only way to get back to Lane field was through An 
Khe pass, which is a rather difficult mountain pass. They could not climb 
to cross the mountains. In any case, these were two of our more 
experienced pilots. They flew into a mountain near the pass. This was in a 
helicopter at about 120 knots. (for those pilots, the cloud type they hit was 
granite cumulus, which is a rather solid cloud type normally nor reported 
by weathermen).

On 21 Jul 99, at 21:06, Rich Braun <richb at pioneer.ci.net> wrote:

> We do not, of course, know what happened to that particular plane.  I have
> a hard time believing it was pilot inexperience; they really drill that
> attitude-check and spin-recovery stuff into you during training, and I
> gather this particular pilot was very recently trained, so it seems

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