At 06:15 PM 10/17/2005 -0500, you wrote: >Earlier this summer I flew my Cessna into Venice, Flordia to have Sarasota >Avionics install a new IFR radio stack. Kirk, the installation manager >personally warned me NOT to take off over the water in the morning. It >seems it is very easy to lose track of the horizon and confuse the blue >water with the blue sky. To prove his point we flew over 2 boats salvaging >a sunken Cherokee 3 miles off the runway.
This can easily be avoided with access to any of: artificial horizon turn and bank indicator turn rate indicator. VFR only is no reason to not have one of those items, as the above shows. Larry Severson Fountain Valley, CA 92708 (714) 968-9852 [email protected]
