REFLECTOR: FW: getting majorly lost

[Alex Balic]

This is a bit off topic, but I just was reading through my Nov.  Flying mag
in the "on the record" section, there was a Moony pilot that crashed
recently because he was flying at night and he ended up at the wrong airport
with associated terrain differences- pilot got minor injuries, but he
admitted that he was at the wrong airport, which can happen if you don't use
GPS and there are airports in close proximity, but the report mentioned that
the airport he was expecting was in another STATE! So I looked them up- and
they were 150 miles apart!  Report didn't state where he started from, and
how far he had travelled to get that far off,( according to the report he
was using dead reckoning at night (genius))  but that is some major bad
piloting.  I guess it was amazing that he had not become a statistic years
ago, but folks like this make my insurance go up, and give GA a bad
reputation too- seems the longer I am around, the more pilots that really
should not be flying seem to show up, even with currency requirements and
flight reviews.

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