- not left out to make you look 'foolish' - left out because you would not know when that is!
BOAC,
You again deliberately take my words out of context. This is becoming a pattern.
I specifically said that if I could not contact ATC I would, in fact, climb to MSA. However, automatically climbing to MSA may cause me to climb into another airplane flying around at MVA.
Finally, I never said 20 minutes was my limit for retaining information. I simply said that I don't think it is reasonable to assume that any person would retain a random number for 20 minutes. It would be far more effective to brief where the high terrain was than all four MSA sectors. As I am capable of using this computer to type this message, it should be clear to any reader that I am capable of retaining information for at least 20 minutes. I believe there is something called "long term memory", or something like that. Or maybe you heard of that and just "forgot?"