#1AHRS @ 27th Dec 2011, 15:03 post #380
"No lumping together of visual or instrument rules there, just good utilization of what the aircraft offers us. As I suspect Jim Collins was doing."
If you mean(as logically appears to be the case) that Collins was "{making} good utilization of what the aircraft offers" I have to disagree strongly. It's clear that he made no attempt to use the weather radar. Had he done so, with correct technique, he'd have know exactly where he was.
Hubris kills and Air New Zealand were full of it.