Gary Drescher wrote:
"Gary Drescher" wrote in message
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http://www.boston.com/news/local/con...l_plane_crash/


When this sort of thing happens to experienced pilots (1400 hours,
CP-AS/MEL-IR, Angel Flight volunteer; co-pilot, 540 hours), I wonder if CO
poisoning, or some other impairment, could be responsible.

Does experience make you immune to spatial disorientation? These were
certainly the conditions to produce it, especially for someone from
Phoenix. I'm a newbie and it's quite possible that I have more actual
instrument hours from 3 years of flying in New England than a 1400-hour
pilot from Arizona does.

Maybe his number just came up. I know the FAA calls this a hazardous
attitude (i.e. "resignation") but Ernie Gann said it best, "fate is the
hunter." This is in my mind the real "risk" of flying, that no matter
how hard you try to do things right, there is still that chance that
some day the universe will decide to punch your ticket for no
particular reason. For more information, contact your local
preacher-man.

-cwk.