haughtney1: I don't recall what the specific Density Altitude was that day, but I don't reckon it can have been too bad -the rest of us were on/off 14 all day in aircraft at/near gross... but no, that wasn't my point either. Every one of us that has operated 14 with any sort of regularity have given itinerants likely to be operating off 14 warning of the false horizon in the turn and the proximity to terrain -which does come back to my point: lack of training and preparedness is at the root of many of these crashes and incidents... which IMO comes back again to airmanship. As far as I'm concerned, local procedural knowledge includes information of this nature that is immediately pertinent to the intended operation.
As you are no doubt aware there were other factors that militated against this particular pilot which we don't need to be getting into here.