On Aug 14, 6:54*pm, wrote:
On Aug 14, 1:45 pm, Dallas wrote:

On Thu, 14 Aug 2008 04:52:52 -0700 (PDT), wrote:
*I seem to remember in excess of 300 hours dual.

Wow, that's just hard to believe.

[shaking his head]

--
Dallas

My BIG error. He had 310 hours total time. See

http://amelia.db.erau.edu/reports/misc/NYC99MA178a.pdf

which states he was about half way through his instrument training.
Elsewhere, I forgot where, I remember reading he had lots of CFII
time. He did have about 35 trips to the vineyard.

Final note -- the NTSB report seems to be hard to download. I probably
have a copy in my files -- for purposes unrelated to this thread I did
some research on the matter a couple of years ago -- so if you need it
drop me a note.