Originally Posted by
Old Akro
The pilot of VH-OWN was without question a competent pilot with more experience on King Air's than most. If VH-OWN was the only aircraft with tracking / missed approach difficulties, then it would add credence to the pilots claim that there were GPS / autopilot faults.
Would it?
Just because someone is competent at flying the aircraft does not necessarily mean that they are competent at flying an RNAV approach (or any other instrument approach, for that matter), despite it being in an aircraft that they can fly well.
Because the report doesn't seem to mention it, or I missed it, my questions would be:
1) How long had the pilot held an endorsement for RNAVs?
2) How many RNAVs had they done, and what was their recency on RNAVs? Especially in substantial weather.
3) How familiar was the pilot with conducting RNAVs with the equipment that was installed?