Cirrus' "Failing Instruments In Rapid Succession"

In a previous article, "Marco Leon" mleon(at)optonline.net said:
What irks me is how and why the aircraft experienced all these instrument
failures one right after another. If any of our Pipers/Cessnas/Beechcrafts

You know, every time a pilot gets into a death spiral in IMC, if he
manages to report anything (like if he lives, or he says something over
the radio), he says that "all the instruments failed". But it's almost
never "all the instruments" that failed, it's the pilot that failed -
failed to trust the instruments, failed to cross check and identify if one
really had failed, failed to use the tools at his disposal (like pitot
heat and the autopilot and the checklist) and the skills he learned as a
student and never practiced again.

It's a sad thing to have to say, but most crashes are preventable and a
lot of the people who die in small planes have died for no reason other
than their pilot screwed up.

--
Paul Tomblin http://xcski.com/blogs/pt/
Some days violence is just a nice quick solution to a problem that
would need thought, planning and actual work to do justice to.
-- Wayne Pascoe

Got a good point there Paul (and others). It would be hard to explain the
pulling of a parachute if he had only one or two instruments fail. "Yeah,
they ALL failed!" sounds like a good story to tell the insurance company.

The other odd thing is that he says that he will buy another Cirrus. I can
only speak for myself but I sure would buy another plane where all the
instruments failed on me at the same time. So maybe he was exaggerating.

Marco


"Paul Tomblin" wrote in message
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In a previous article, "Marco Leon" mleon(at)optonline.net said:
What irks me is how and why the aircraft experienced all these instrument
failures one right after another. If any of our
Pipers/Cessnas/Beechcrafts

You know, every time a pilot gets into a death spiral in IMC, if he
manages to report anything (like if he lives, or he says something over
the radio), he says that "all the instruments failed". But it's almost
never "all the instruments" that failed, it's the pilot that failed -
failed to trust the instruments, failed to cross check and identify if one
really had failed, failed to use the tools at his disposal (like pitot
heat and the autopilot and the checklist) and the skills he learned as a
student and never practiced again.

It's a sad thing to have to say, but most crashes are preventable and a
lot of the people who die in small planes have died for no reason other
than their pilot screwed up.

--
Paul Tomblin http://xcski.com/blogs/pt/
Some days violence is just a nice quick solution to a problem that
would need thought, planning and actual work to do justice to.
-- Wayne Pascoe




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