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In a message dated 8/5/02 8:25:05 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > He flew a > long way in the dark & haze and may have had the auto pilot on, Actually, he launched before it was really dark. He flew the majority of the trip above the haze where he had at least stars and a horizon for visual references, probably the lights along Long Island sound as well. It was when he descended into the haze that he lost those references and then control of the plane. If you fly in that stuff in the day, you have no forward visibility as there's nothing to see, and can see only a circle of surface below you. No horizon, per se. At night over water there's nothing below to see either. Been there, almost did that (years ago, when I had about the same time as he, ~100 hours). My approach to Nantucket that same night might just as well have been an instrument approach. There wasn't a thing to see until final. John ================================================================== TO UNSUBSCRIBE go to: http://ercoupers.com/lists.htm
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