Originally Posted by
jumpseater
Guernsey ATC did nothing wrong.
The flight was filed under visual (VFR)rules, so flying ‘looking out the window’. It’s entirely normal to offer alternative routes and heights for weather (and traffic) avoidance. So yes, business as usual for this flight, and any other making similar flight.
The report stated the manoeuvre was to maintain VFR not regain it. That indicates he was still flying with references to good ground contact or a defined horizon.If he then flew into cloud or a shower that reduces visibility, disorientation can occur fast enough to lose control regardless of any CO problem that may have degraded the pilots faculties.
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Which brings us back to the basic deceipt of the whole exercise. Do you think Mr Sala was expecting to be flown by an amateur pilot/operator dodging clouds?