"Jim Burns" wrote in message
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If they were willing, I think it would be of great benefit for a magazine
like AOPA's Flight Training to interview both of them and ask them
questions
from the pilots, students, and instructors point of view, rather than just
the news media interviewing them from the talking head "you almost got
shot
down and could have killed the President" point of view.

Agreed.

I guess two pilots planning the same route could get lost in
unfamiliar territory and neither realize where they were. I would hope
that
two heads and four eyes would tilt the odds more in their favor, perhaps
not. What irritates me the most is that Shaeffer hasn't shown us that he
understood the complexity of the area other than the Camp David P area.

Yup, that's certainly true. And he seems to have been off course by a good
45 degrees, which is hard to understand.

On the other hand, I once got 30 degrees off course when I plotted a course
while flying, and mistakenly subtracted magnetic variation instead of adding
it. If they did something like that, and also had a crosswind that was
different than forecast, and maybe had some unnoticed gyro drift and some
sloppiness in holding their heading (since the student was flying), and if
they had the bad luck for all those factors to align in the same direction,
and if their pilotage sucked and/or the landmarks were sparse until they
were deeply inside the ADIZ...

--Gary