"Ben Jackson" wrote in message
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On 2005-05-05, Gary Drescher wrote:
Third, if the controller's radar
shows your altitude, you can get an altitude alert (as the HPN pilots
did).

Except the report made it sound like they acknowledged it and kept going.
Hard to believe a CFII wouldn't know offhand from that comment that they
were in trouble (being at a familiar airport).

Yes, he had to know by then that they were too low.

--Gary