They don't in Maine. I was just pointing out that all that IFR skill
doesn't change the low level VFR in IMC equation.

Her option would have been to wait for better weather or climb and file pop
up for diversion to an airport with an approach if things were lower than
she thought. Of course, that could have meant revealing that she set off on
a less than legal VFR flight which might have had repercussions for her
employment. Perhaps she was subject to pressures a non-professional pilot
wouldn't have been.

The other Maine scud runner was on a flight from an approach to an approach.
He hit a treeless, snow covered hill that probably looked just like the mist
he was flying under.

--

Roger Long



"G.R. Patterson III" wrote in message
...


Roger Long wrote:

[A] 14,500
hour big iron driver with 20 years in float planes who could have filed
and
executed an IFR flight plan in her sleep hits a hill in 700 foot
ceilings.

I didn't know they have instrument approaches to lakes.

George Patterson
If you want to know God's opinion of money, just look at the people
he gives it to.