Update on Denver plane crash...

"Richard Hertz" wrote in message . net...
"Sam" wrote in message
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http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news...04/detail.html

1)Looks like somebody either told them of the stall (whether it was my
email or not) and they corrected the article. Sounds like they
misquoted the flight sim tech as I had thought.

2)What an unfortunate and strange crash. The ink must've still been
wet on that guys PPL, and he's flying around in a complex, high power
Bonanza w/ his student pilot daughter at the controls? Why do people
do this?? What a waste of life and airplane.

The article says he owned it for 6 months - It is not unreasonable to assume
he had been trained in it and was fairly competent in it. The speculation
about the ink being wet and such is silly. Perhaps you could not handle the
plane, or other fresh pilots when they just come out of a 152 or 172, but it
is not impossible to have a fairly low time pilot be able to fly that plane.
(They handle quite nicely - things just happen quicker...)

If I had the money I would have bought a plane like that instead of a
grumman cheetah for my training. Why not?


Maybe I don't have a good answer for your question. I just recently
started training as a student pilot, so I don't have a lot of
experience. I've been reading about aviation and looking through
these newsgroups (admittedly subjective opinions) for several years,
and the combo of new pilot, complex, high performance plane, and
apparent student training (of his daughter) seems like it would be a
bit much for someone that just started training in January.

Its been said that these types of a/c can easily get ahead of you, but
you always have the option of slowing things down to a manageable
level. So if someone were to train in one of these w/ a good
instructor, perhaps it's not all that bad to start w/ one if you're
careful and understand the risks.

It'll obviously take awhile before all the info is gathered on this
case, and luckily there were a couple of witnesses. But we at least
know the owner (or his daughter) stalled the a/c at low altitude and
crashed. The a/c only had 95 hours on it, so it's not like he had
tons of time in it. 95 hours is a lot to me, but I know it's not
enough to be "proficient" in the a/c, particularly if you're a new
pilot. Stalling any aircraft unintentionally = you are not proficient
in the plane. Allowing a student pilot to have control of the a/c at
low altitudes would say to me the guy is not too keyed in on risk
management either.