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Newps wrote:



Jay Honeck wrote:

He didn't like Gabreski and considered both Hoover and Yeager to be
marginal on the gages.



I wonder if that's not uncommon? Being a fighter ace and flying on
the gauges are totally different skills.

In fact, now that I ponder it, being the aggressive, unpredictable,
sharp-eyed fighter ace is almost diametrically opposed to the image of
a skillful, competent IFR pilot.


Exactly. The same goes for the myth that getting an instrument rating
makes you a better pilot. It makes you a better instrument pilot. It
makes you a worse VFR pilot.

How so?

Because such pilots can become complacent about VFR flight. Say they're
VFR in borderline VMC - not uncommon for such pilots to do a bit of
'cheating' by using IFR instruments to "help out". It can lead to bad
accidents...
McDonnell-Douglas DC10-30 ZK-NZP collision with terrain, Ross Island,
Antarctica, 28 November 1979 (257 deaths).

If yer VFR, yer fly by VFR.

--
Duncan