JP ...I find that I must take issue with your 6770......although I agree with you that they were off course and heading for high ground...............I think that the Foghorn confusion is unlikely to say the least..........
..you appear to have accepted , what might at first seem , to be a plausible suggestion without doing any research to check further.....
..at waypoint change they had 30 second to run to the waypoint itself , which was on a heading from them of 018 degrees true........their track 021 true.....
...then some mere 8 to ten seconds later they pass the foghorn , which is on their starboard side......
...so...
1...it is too early...
2...it is on the wrong side of the aircraft track......
3...it is on a short section of East-West aligned coast , instead of North-South coastline......
4...it is tiny in comparison sizewise.....to the lighthouse complex.......
5...if they could see it at all , they could see all of it ........and it doesnt have a 1.5 million candlepower light flashing on top of it .........
...a student PPL on his/her first solo X-country might panic and make such a mistake....... but surely not these guys.....
rgds Robin....
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Last edited by Robin Clark; 10th Sep 2010 at 07:19.
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