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Old 10th Oct 2012, 17:31
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As stated by others we are not aware whether this pilot was IR rated or whether he was indeed a pilot fly VFR on top who expected to break cloud at 2000 feet and found infact that the cloud was at 700 feet.
In that situation he should have asked for help from ATC and been vectored to VMC conditions.
Instead he appeared to try to break cloud was unable to fly a runway heading on a go around and then lost control attempting a turn under ATC instructions!
Whatever he did not have the abilities to be where he was and by the looks of things did not get TAFS or ignored them.
Had he been flying a 172 would this have happened or worse??
The Cirrus does have a very sharp roll rate I timed it as the same as a Firefly aerobatic machine so it would be easy to overcontrol in roll in cloud especially for an inexperienced instrument pilot.
He would have fared better engaging the autopilot and getting ATC help.

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