[AllAmericanGirl44]

Wait, a guy who is heralded for attempting to land on a building and avoiding going to the ground and killing many, somehow is an idiot who couldn’t fly in fog?

[mairdie]

>>Wait, a guy who is heralded for attempting to land on a building and avoiding going to the ground and killing many, somehow is an idiot who couldn’t fly in fog?

I would think in an area of skyscrapers, landing on a building might seem more reasonable than continuing to fall toward the ground. After all, the city is filled with helicopter pads on the tops of buildings. Stopping NOW sounds a lot better when you’re in trouble than stopping SOON.

Maybe they’ll know more about his intentions after more research. I don’t think of him as having the mental togetherness that a military pilot does. One of THOSE I’d believe would have been trying to save people. A pilot who didn’t have an instrument rating? Who knows?

[genetic homophobe]

Yeah mairdie, pretty quick to call him an idiot 😂. I find it unreal that a guy with his experience and the commercial jobs he’s had flying helicopters isn’t instrument rated. However, even if he weren’t, his behavior was odd. My buddy, who is my neighbor, is a pilot with over 10,000 hours. He’s qualified to fly them all. He flies the AS350s for the local sheriff’s dept. he says very weird because most non instrument rated pilots would breadth a huge sigh of relief when they break out below the clouds. The way he leveled off after his nose dive, it would have been very counter intuitive to climb back into the clouds. Most non instrument rated pilots would’ve hugged the ground till they could put it down.