"Mortimer Schnerd, RN" wrote:
A fellow with a four month old private pilot's licence flying an A-36.

Yes. That is a lot of airplane for a newbie. Plenty of people have bought a
Bo' and successfully learned to fly in it, but we don't know what this pilot
trained in.

I'll be
curious to find out what really happened. Preliminary findings are that it
was
VMC at 2015 hours (getting dark?) and that it had just been serviced that
day.
All sorts of possibilities come to mind.

Perhaps the kind of service performed is a clue. What if he had been having
trouble with the HSI, for instance?

It'll be a year before the NTSB releases final findings, and even then
it'll
probably be wrong.

They may not have much to go on besides circumstantial stuff.
--
Dan
C-172RG at BFM