Beagle - 'vicinity' - I wouldn't bother to ask - not one of them has responded to several requests to do so (they don't know!), just as not one of them has been able to support their absolute certainty as to how the crew operated in the last few minutes.
Originally Posted by Cazatou
That "Best Guess" would have precluded flight in accordance with VFR in the vicinity of the Mull Of Kintyre; according to the Findings of the BOI. The Pilots should therefore have planned to transit the Mull at or above Safety Altitude and should only have descended to low level flight again once they were unequivocally certain that they could continue the flight under VFR conditions. This they did not do.
- unbelievable crap. That ably demonstrates that some of our posters (Cazatou for sure) have NO (or have 'lost' ANY) IDEA of
a) The RTS of the a/c
b) What the MSA was
c) How such low-level ops are conducted
d) the fact that there was, as far as we know, NO PLAN to '
transit the Mull' in any case.
This thread is stuffed with low-level experts who boast they would:
abort if they saw a cloud on the coast
climb immediately to MSA if there was cloud
forecast below MSA en-route
Heaven help us. Thankfully our low-level pilots operate normally. We are wasting our time engaging these folk in discussions. One has to hope that the mental processes were better when in any relevant post.