Some instructors even suggest pitching to Vne and waiting in the event of an engine failure, it makes the waiting go faster
D*ckheads
Aside from the fact that a forced landing is much more likely to be unsuccessfull at night, other factors which also appear to also have contributed to the very poor night flying accident record are:
1)Spacial disorientation (due to a lack of a visible horizon)
2)CFIT (due to be inablility to see obstacles untill it is too late) and
3)Loss of control due to inadvertantly entering IMC (you cannot see clouds at night)
Agree totally.
It is a bit of an anomaly that a plain PPL is allowed to fly at night. A proper dark night is IMC. So how does this work??? Logically it would never be allowed. It works because
- few PPLs fly at night
- of those that do, few fly late at night (sunset+30mins is still bright, for a quick local jolly to log the takeoff and landing)
- 99% of the country is just fields, so a forced landing will quite often "work"
Engine failures are so rare (on the certified front; not so sure about the Rotax scene) that they barely feature in the accident stats.
it's illegal to fly at night in a single in France
I would seriously want to see a reference for that.
In many countries, night is IFR and one needs an IR, but not 2 engines.