TRUTH wrote:

Pooh Bear wrote in
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TRUTH wrote:

"Matt Wright" wrote in
oups.com:

Another poster provided FAA records showing that Mohammed Atta was
both commercial and instrument rated - hardly a "clueless
non-pilot". Flight instructors maybe had poor overall opinions of
the pilots, but you don't know how long they trained away from the
flight school. You don't know how much "book time" they had
studying avionics. The attack had years of planning behind it. I
guess they could have spent that time playing pinball... but maybe
instead they were studying. That something is hard does not make it
impossible.

Matt.

I missed that. Please post it. Still, showing one of them was
instrument trained does not explain the others

How many times do you need to have it explained to you that there was
no need for any of them to be instrument trained ? Flying in clear
skies does not require an instrument rating.

Graham



At 30,000 feet it does

INCORRECT !

FAA regulations require the licensed crew to use instrument flying
techniques ( for obvious reasons ).

That doesn't mean that it's impossible to fly VFR ( visual flight rules ) -
it just means you're breaking the law. Do you think the hijackers even cared
about that ?

If you can see the horizon / ground ( at any height ) you don't need to fly
instruments ( other than to obey regulations ).

Graham