Right vs Wrong:
Prospector:
Matey I agree with you, I don't mean that as a contradiction.
Where it becomes murky, they didn't have the area knowledge base, antarctic flying experiance, or training, to be able to make the VMC decision in the conditions they "thought" they where in, when in fact they were in sector white out,( an illusion) together with the fact that their actual track was 40 k's from where they thought they were.
The only way for them to have cross checked their route would have been to have a series of charts with the route drawn and the waypoints ticked off as being crossed and the Lat & Longs matched, why was this not in practice is a good Question, this way they would hve seen their parallel track era.
They thought Erebus was 20+ miles to the West.
Judge Greene is correct, but he's wrong, how can that be?
If they were where they were supose to be, Mac center would have had clear Comms, they had not had comms difficulty with the other flights.
They had comm's problems because the signal was blocked by a huge piece of granite.
While the controllers are not responsible for the decision, or to second guess a pilot for making a decision to operate VMC, in this case their operational experiance was enough for them to have "perhaps" enquired more.
Rights wrong, wrong is right, there are so many liks in the chain here that were broken, and hind sight is always 20/20.
Chr's
H/Snort.