Alarming news stories on instructor and student down at HPN

In article , Gary Drescher
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"Tom Fleischman" k wrote in
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news:260420051651377491%bodhijunkoneeightyeightjun ...
So here we have an instructor who is looking to work overtime to make
enough money to go to Puerto Rico to visit his sick father and a
student pilot who was out late the night before drinking in a bar
because he didn't expect to be flying the next day.

This does NOT look good.

Except that the articles you cited said nothing about being in a bar, or
drinking. And even he had been, he could still have been in perfectly
reasonable shape to fly the following afternoon.

You are absolutely right, but I'd bet dollars to doughnuts that if he
was shooting pool late at night it was probably in a bar, and if he was
shooting pool late at night he was probably also drinking, particulary
if he didn't think that he'd be flying the next day.

And there's certainly
nothing unusual about a flight instructor needing money.


No, but there is something unusual about an instructor taking a primary
student out in weather that bad.