"Skylune" wrote:
The author's main point was that a moron like JFK Jr. can
fly legally (LEGALLY, that is the point!) with VFR at night
in hazy conditions, unsupervised. This is a fact.

He was not a moron, but rather a Kennedy, and Kennedys are people
who must succeed. He was well aware he lacked the skills for this,
but pressed on as Kennedys must. Read the NTSB carefully, and see
the lack of self-confidence, like how he had an instructor with him
on almost all his cross-country trips, on even nice days, and
despite having over 300 hours. Does any pilot here know somebody
who does this? Imagine also how none of his instructors may have
had the courage to tell him, or Uncle Ted, he's a failure at this.
FAA thus need not tighten the rules because of such an
extraordinary case.

Fred F.