Originally Posted by
Sunfish
Duck Pilot:
Disclaimer: My personal starting point is that I know SFA about flying.
That said, and having flown into Porepunkah, I cannot understand how Mr. 182 could possibly think a pre dawn departure was acceptable from that airstrip.
As to standards, consider the idiot newly minted RAA pilot who departed Mt Beauty in a jabiru, allegedly to transit the great divide for Wollongong, in what was definitely not VFR conditions, and killed himself in the first valley he attempted.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=...LY1md3EfXhvcAr
I wonder if the entire box ticking "competency based" education and assessment system is fundamentally flawed if it keeps producing pilots who keep making such flawed risk assessments.
Read the crash comics from the fifties and sixties. None of this is new. To blame training when pilots blatantly break rules is ridiculous.