"Gary Drescher" wrote

And even a pilot who lacks recent IMC experience should at least be able
to
go missed in benign conditions rather than crashing. But most peculiar of

Many, many IFR pilots have never flown an approach to low IMC conditions.
In fact I would guess this is true of the majority of single-engine piston
IFR pilots and certainly it is true of many pilots from the Southwest.
Doing a missed approach in low IMC conditions is very different from an
emotional or mental perspective than doing so under the hood. This is pure
speculation, but if indeed this was the pilot's first-ever missed approach
in low IMC then that alone could explain what happened.

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Richard Kaplan

www.flyimc.com