[Celtic Conservative]

Pilot disorientation in IFR conditions?

CC

[webheart]

I must be getting cynical in my old age. My first thought upon reading the headline was “whitewash”. Or “hogwash”, maybe. I can’t get myself to believe that the crash was the result of weather or system malfunction. We can spend all day debating and theorizing and talking about all the possibilities, but we will never get anywhere near the truth.

[Reeses]

Button pusher pilots need a panic button hooked up to a basic flying computer for when they run out of ideas.

[BatGuano]

Two things here...1 use the weather radar as an AVOIDANCE tool, not a penetration tool; 2 If the airspeed indicator does not work or is giving erroneous information. Place the throttles in a known cruise position, usually jut forward of straight up, and put the nose in a cruise attitude, usually a few degrees nose high, and you might not be in perfect shape but the airplane is in relatively stable flight, i.e. it is not losing or gaining altitude or airspeed at a more than manageable rate.
Respect T’storms, they will kill you.