Richard Shanley, a farmer living in Myrrhee Valley, specu lated the plane may have been off course because the flight path for smaller aircraft on the Sydney-to-Benalla route is usually further to the north of his property.
What crap. How would he know what initial waypoint the pilot was using on the GPSNPA?
The aircraft was flying in bad weather and one theory is that the pilot may have punched the wrong co-ordinates into the global positioning system and headed away from the correct track.
More crap only causing angst to the late pilot's family and friends. You CANNOT enter in GPS co-ords for any sort of legal IMC approach - it is on a data card that cannot be altered by the pilot.