From what little we "know" from news reports and supermarket tabloids, he
was disoriented. There have been a number of cases in which a controller has
talked pilots/nonpilot passengers into gaining/regaining control of an
airplane that is in trouble. Neither you nor I know what the controller for
the sector he was in at the fatal moment would or could have done had he
been talking to ATC, but we know for sure that he was in a situation that he
could not handle on his own.

Bob Gardner


"Matt Whiting" wrote in message
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Bob Gardner wrote:

Not the best attitude, in my opinion. As others have noted, ATC expansion
and paychecks depend on traffic counts, so by not using them you hit them
in the pocketbook. And you deprive yourself of a safety net that you pay
for every April.

JFK, Jr. was not required by regulation to use flight following...but the
outcome of his flight might have been drastically different had he done
so.

How so? Could the controller fly his airplane remotely? :-)

Matt