"Zealot", this thread gets more entertaining by the minute.
No, I do not consider myself a more accomplished pilot than you guys, far from it. Not my chosen profession. You have clearly badly missed my point, and my motivation.
But you had better hope I'm not chit-chatting with my pal when I get the (VFR) clearance from the tower at CRQ (south of the localizer, RWY heading), "make left 270, number 2 behind the Brazilia on 4 mile final, cleared to land RWY 24, caution wake turbulence". Sometimes there's a Citation or a Lear east of ESCON at that time as well. You're mixin' with me, like it or not
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btw, I don't consider the off-topic talk to be a major factor in THIS accident, but I think we're agreed it has been one in others, are we not?