Sooooo...all this talk about the PBA with reference to 72EX is irrelevant then?
Megan:
So you're saying the pilot regularly went into IMC without logging the fact, his operator was VMC only, IMC not permitted. If that's a fact, which I'll let you prove/disprove, it points to a somewhat lax attitude to the business, in which case, if true, the accident might come as no surprise.
Megan, heh, you don't fly in the U.S., do you missy?
I'm not saying that Ara "regularly"' went IMC when he was supposedly VFR, but if one of his pilots can be believed, the Kobe accident was not Ara's
first time punching in and doing what needed to be done. Even SAS alludes to this practice when he asked about which GOM pilot
hadn't done an VFR-IMC let-down through a cloud deck? His assumption, evidently, is that it was if not exactly common, then at least routine. Getting back to the topic at hand, if Ara did it more than once, we can legitimately question what kind of judgment he had as a pilot. And from the results of his last revenue flight, I'd say his judgment was fairly lacking. YMMV.