Dave Butler wrote:
speculation
We all know what the radios tend to be like in 40 year old C150s in the rental
fleet. Could be the radios were good enough to talk to an interceptor that's
dropping flares in front of you, but bad enough to discourage you from trying
to get enroute VFR advisories.
/speculation


I can certainly buy that. I never flew a C-150 that didn't have crappy radios;
in fact, most had just one POS nav-com and a transponder.

One other thought: those who are feeling superior to these poor schmucks ought
to think back to when they were low time pilots. Have they never gotten lost?

Even flying through the Giron Corridor over Cuba, I've never been intercepted by
fighters. I expect that is outside the experience of most of the posters here
as well.

In this case, the private pilot needs to get a short suspension and/or mandated
dual. Nothing should happen to the student; he was effectively just the
passenger. And the government needs to rethink its procedures....



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Mortimer Schnerd, RN

VE