REFLECTOR: FW: getting majorly lost

[Velocity]

There are already  to few pilots out here.  Our numbers keep dwindling . That is what is driving up your  insurance.
 When I got my licensee  I was taught dead reckoning  .  Worked just fine never need batteries  did not need updating.





----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Alex Balic 
  To: reflector at awpi.com 
  Sent: Friday, November 04, 2011 2:08 PM
  Subject: REFLECTOR: FW: getting majorly lost


   

   

   

  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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