"David Reinhart" wrote in message
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No, the pilot was IFR rated and on an instrument flight plan. He had over
600
hours in his Cirrus which probably makes him one of the higher-time pilots
in
type.
Hmmm. Even though he was instrument rated and on an IFR flight plan, I still
think it is far more likely that he was disoriented than that 'multiple
instruments on different systems' failed. I am not saying that it is
impossible for everything to go wrong, just that it is far more likely for
just one thing to go wrong. In this case, I would suspect the pilot, though
the instruments will certainly need to be checked out in the investigation.
A lot of IFR pilots get into real trouble with the loss of the vacuum
system, even though we supposedly train them to recognize such errors. There
is a lot of difference between a genuine instrument failure and covering up
the instrument with a sticky. I think more training time in the simulator
would be valuable.
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