Re: Lama accident in dense fog
Ever flown in the Aleutian Islands....flying in FOG was a "normal" everyday common practice. We used the old tried and true schoolyard method of ...."warmer...warmer...colder...colder...warmer..."to find folks that were off the survey line. Otherwise it was follow the survey lines....up the mainline...left on the 3500 to the 4000...right turn...and so on.
You have not been lost until you have been lost in that kind of vis...and no really nice place to land...especially knowing it might be two...three weeks until the fog lifts enough to see where you are.
It is possible to fly in weather bad enough that you cannot scare a sea gull off a rock.
But...that was a whole different time than nowadays.