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I will apologize if I offended you or some other commuter
pilot. But in my experience with commuter operations, and pilots, the aircraft are usually only equipped with basic avionics. Further, the operating profile doesn't necessarily apply to corporate 1,000 mile trips in a King Air. But based on what you have said, it is even more of a puzzle as to why and how did this accident happen. "Beavis" wrote in message ... | In article , | "Jim Macklin" wrote: | | The NTSB said he did not properly fly the approach, that | even though the aircraft was not approved to use the GPS | IFR, the crew obviously was using the GPS to find the LOM | and used it to, in error do the hold... | | Oh, I wholeheartedly agree they screwed up and used the GPS improperly. | My issue was with this statement: | | | He had a GPS, but as a high time commuter pilot in a | | BE1900, he didn't know how to use it. | | And I maintain that's a ridiculous statement, since I've seen first-hand | he knew very well how to use it, and *practiced* it during his time as a | 1900 commuter pilot. | | Why he didn't apply that knowledge properly that day, we'll never know. | But your suggestion that 1900 time somehow negates GPS knowledge is a | strange one. |
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