On 5/23/05 2:25 PM, in article ,
"Larry Dighera" spewed:


EDITOR'S NOTE:

Jim Sheaffer, 69, retired, is a licensed pilot residing with his wife,
Joyce, in Lititz, PA. Troy Martin, 36, is a local business owner and
student pilot with 30 hours of flight time who lives in Akron, PA,
with his wife Jill and two young sons.


Reads like someone trying to cover his ass.
No cheap GPS? No backup radio? No idea where Washington DC is? No idea what
a Blackhawk helicopter trying to communicate with them might mean?

I do know that as a student, I performed every aspect of pre-flight and
flight planning. My instructor would make a cursory inspection of the plane
and my plan, but usually no more. If the narrative is accurate, the student
did nothing but fly the plane. Exactly how was this student learning to do
anything but point the plane in the general direction he wanted to go?
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