"Steven P. McNicoll" wrote:

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If you think in terms of getting down to a stepdown to "get out of the
clouds"
that is a good way to find granite or trees instead of water vapor. This
is not
just my view; the industry/government accident stats are replete.


Only if the published altitudes are wrong.

I guess the stats and industry/government studies are all wet then.

The published altitudes weren't wrong at KBDL when the AAL MD80 hit the trees
near the stepdown fix.