Originally Posted by
Lookleft
If he had a valid IFR rating then he could have lodged an IFR flight plan from Dalby to Archerfield and arrived safely. Instead he appears to have chosen to a tortuous VFR route that has killed him and two others. How expensive was it to not maintain the rating?
We don’t yet know if the avionics were working at the time of the prang.
Depending on the panel layout, an avionics failure under the IFR may have given the same result.