Backup gyros - which do you trust?

James Robinson wrote:

One comment in the report was that the pilot might have had a tendency
to focus on a single problem, and mot paid attention to other things.
He could have been trying to troubleshoot the electrical problem, and
not handed control over to the copilot, who would have had a better view
of the remaining functional instruments.

This is poor CRM if it is the case.

Did the report say anything about the training of the pilots? I
woulda thought they did regular sim stuff, where I assume the
instructors put you through the wringer on various failues.

The failure would have been immediately obvious, so
it wasn't one of those insidious failures that people don't notice at
first. An experienced IFR pilot should have been aware of the need to
maintain attitude and yet lost control almost immediately. In reading
the report, it seems like such an avoidable accident, yet...

Yeah, that's what gets me about so many of these.

Sydney