"Jeff" wrote in message ...
| Has anyone read the new flying magazine?
| There is an article in it about a guy in a bonanza who crashed doing an
| instrument approach using a hand held non-aviation GPS, but whats worse
| is his maint. on his airplane, putting tape over the gas tank when he
| lost his gas cap and so on.
|

The interesting thing about that article was the NTSB's assertion that the
reason he crashed was because he did not file a flight plan. I have never
heard of this being given as the cause of a crash before (except in the news
media, of course).