"John T" wrote in message news:42924168$0$6599$

At *best* they showed extremely poor judgement. At worst, they shouldn't
be
flying with navigation skills so poor they had to turn 90 degrees to
visually identify their position.

They embarrassed the rest of us.

My feeling exactly! If you have to turn the airplane 90 degrees, does
that mean you couldn't just turn your head? Out here you might not be able
to pull that off. I fly up the Columbia River Gorge frequently. If you
get disoriented and have to turn 90 degrees, you've got maybe a minute
before you're in the cliffs or the trees.

-c