IFR/Flight Following -- ATC Preferences?

"Steven P. McNicoll" wrote in
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"Judah" wrote in message
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No, but it can prevent you from having your altimeter set incorrectly
so that you fly into the water when you think you are 500' above
it...


So can listening to an ATIS or ASOS/AWOS broadcast. Flight following
would not have prevented this accident.

Are you saying that JFK Jr's altimeter was improperly set? If so,
what is your evidence?

No. I am saying is none of us know for certain what happened that night.
There are many theories, but incomplete evidence. There is no way to
definitively prove the root cause of the accident. Your theory of him
getting into a graveyard spiral, while popular and seemingly plausible,
also has holes. As was described earlier in this thread - he had over 100
hours of hood time, and should have been capable of recognizing that
something was wrong and turning on his autopilot...

Judah wrote:

As was described earlier in this thread - he had over 100
hours of hood time, and should have been capable of recognizing that
something was wrong and turning on his autopilot...

Where are you getting this "100 hours of hood time" fact? The NTSB
accident reports estimates that JFK only had 310 hours. Additionally, the
NTSB report mentions that he has 13.3 hours of time with a CFII during his
instrument training and 16.9 hours of simulator time.

Your "over 100 hours of hood time" is not at all believable, much less
supported by the facts reported in the accident report.

Here, it appears to me that the facts of the accident report may not be as
fresh on your mind as they once we

http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/brief.asp?e...12X19354&key=1

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Peter
























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"Judah" wrote in message
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No. I am saying is none of us know for certain what happened that night.
There are many theories, but incomplete evidence. There is no way to
definitively prove the root cause of the accident. Your theory of him
getting into a graveyard spiral, while popular and seemingly plausible,
also has holes.


I posited no such theory.



As was described earlier in this thread - he had over 100
hours of hood time, and should have been capable of recognizing that
something was wrong and turning on his autopilot...


A loss of control due to spatial disorientation best fits the evidence.