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I agree with Grey on this one. That stretch of sea bottom is littered with boats and airplanes. The charter pilots I know are very picky about what conditions they'll fly out to the islands after dark. It's mighty easy to get fogged in. There's a bumper sticker you see on Nantucket that says "Got fog?" And on top of that, it's not just the water out this way. We're between New York and Boston, so it's not exactly the cleanest air. Water, lots of particulate matter, heat -- doesn't add up to good viz. Leslie Holbrook Alon A2 N161LH (Flying Colors #1) Chester, CT 3B9 >From: Greg Bullough <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: Greg Bullough <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "Desert Eagle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,<[email protected]> >Subject: Re: Fw: [COUPERS-FLYIN] Gyros >Date: Sun, 04 Aug 2002 07:43:08 -0400 > >----[Please read http://ercoupers.com/disclaimer.htm before following any >advice in this forum.]---- > > >At 08:36 PM 8/3/02 -0600, Desert Eagle wrote: >>Thing is Visibility was 10 miles, > >Oh, you thought that visibility meant he could *see*! :-) > >There are times here in the northeast when 10 miles visibility means >'haze and no horizon.' Too often the visibility that allows the >laser they use to measure it doesn't do squat for the human eye. >And I'm talking day-time here. At night, it would be a very bad >situation. > >I flew all the way back to NJ from the EOC convention in MI, with >reported ASOS visibilities of 8-12 miles. I never saw a horizon. >I saw the ridges, and the antennas on them. But no horizon. > >And by the time I got home I had such vertigo that I walked like >a drunken sailor. > >>and he had the airport in sight. > >People have been known to be wrong about that. They've also been >known to lose the airport, or at night to descend into a foggy patch >on the way to something they could see. > >>Something else happened. Like, why were they looking 20 miles from >>where he was last reported and the N #'s of the wreckage shown on the >>news didn't match his plane ? > >What happened was 'spatial disorientation' pure and simple. > >Fun as they are, conspiracy theories are generally a bunch of crap. > >Greg _________________________________________________________________ Join the world's largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com ================================================================== TO UNSUBSCRIBE go to: http://ercoupers.com/lists.htm
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