In the latest edition of the APOA magazine, there's an article on Barry Prescott, who has passed his HPA rating. All good stuff, but there's a comment which puzzles me. He's referring to problems whih occur when pilots either fly in an environment they're not familiar with, or get their hands on aircraft they don't properly understand.
He states : "There have been a number of accidents ... where pilots have gone straight from a PA-28 into a pressurised aircraft and climbed to 25,000 feet only to find that
their plane goes all white and enters a high speed dive which ends with them pulling the wings off when they pop out of low cloud." (my italics).
My question refers to the italicised bit. Does he just mean the pilot passes out (and if so, why, when the plane is pressurised?) or is there something I'm missing ?
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