Originally Posted by
bryancobb
OMGGGG! And you can do that at 150kts headed straight into a funnel where rising terrain converges up to the cloud bases and you know there's Earth in the cloud ahead that you are about to climb into???? All while unexpectedly having to quickly establish a crosscheck and swap from eyes outside to instruments. SMH
Even better at 150 kts, a zoom climb would have you rocketing up well over 3500 fpm. This was an emergency situation because there was no other option. Reports now that one of the pilot's former colleagues has stated the accident pilot had an IR but he'd never flown in cloud before. Which is possible in FAA land.