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"Jim Macklin" wrote:

The NTSB said he did not properly fly the approach, that
even though the aircraft was not approved to use the GPS
IFR, the crew obviously was using the GPS to find the LOM
and used it to, in error do the hold...

Oh, I wholeheartedly agree they screwed up and used the GPS improperly.
My issue was with this statement:

| He had a GPS, but as a high time commuter pilot in a
| BE1900, he didn't know how to use it.

And I maintain that's a ridiculous statement, since I've seen first-hand
he knew very well how to use it, and *practiced* it during his time as a
1900 commuter pilot.

Why he didn't apply that knowledge properly that day, we'll never know.
But your suggestion that 1900 time somehow negates GPS knowledge is a
strange one.