Posted on 03/18/2006 6:34:03 PM PST by Westlander
WINFIELD, W.Va. -- National Guard jets tried unsuccessfully to make contact with the pilot of a private plane Friday night before it crashed near a rural home in West Virginia.
The body of the pilot, the only person on board, was found in the wreckage. He's been identified as 56-year old William Cammack, of St. Paul, Minn.
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Why not? I had my Northstar GPS coupled to the Century III onboard my Bellanca. I could switch input to the autopilot from heading to either VOR or the GPS. While your assertion that a Baron might not be equipped with GPS is not all pervasive, it certainly is a good bet to assume it was on board and capable of providing guidance through whatever flavor of A/P that was installed. I cannot think of one good reason why I would have an IFR GPS NOT capable of coupling to the A/P. Do you have a reason this would be so? I would also think an aircraft in the Baron's class would also be equipped with a flight director.
Yes they found the wreckage nearly nine years ago, about three weeks after Button and his A-10 disappeared. The four Mk 82 bombs, not missiles, he was carrying were never found.
Why not?
Simple: money.
It costs money to slave the autopilot to the GPS. Depending on your routine missions, you may not wish to spend the money. I don't. I just keep the heading bug on the course the GPS gives me, and that does the trick.
I assume you know enough about flying not to assert that not slaving the two amounts to a "safety lapse" or some such thing.
No, you got me there. I'm just a wannabe flyer. I got right up to soloing but just couldn't do it. I made up all that stuff I wrote in the other post.
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