IFR with a VFR GPS

"Peter R." wrote in message
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Well, the official, sterile probable cause reads:

"The failure of the pilot to follow the published instrument approach
procedure, which resulted in an early descent into an antenna tower. A
factor was the low ceiling"

Of course, all of those factors you mentioned certainly are possible, too,
but not provable.


Nor is the NTSB's probable cause.



A clue to these other factors leading to this accident
was that the aircraft was one mile to the right of course at the IAF.


But "just slightly left of the approach course centerline" when it struck
the tower.