A King Air blundering around in IMC at Mt Hotham with a faulty GPS comes close to another King Air.
If it was "blundering around" that suggests the flight crew were not up to the job. When did it become apparent that the GPS was faulty and did the unit have a history of faults.
Is that number based on the carrying capacity of 2 King Airs or on how many people were
actually in the aircraft at the time?
The aircraft with the faulty GPS then appears out of cloud at 100' above the trees well away from the normal approach path.
I doubt the aircraft was doing an RNP so why was it anywhere near the ground if it was conducting an instrument approach at YHOT?
Was this incident reported to the ATSB by the flight crew as they are legally required to? If not why not?
I don't disagree with the premise that if the radar is available then it should be used to its full extent; but the way this incident has been described has been akin to the more sensationalist reporting about aviation we see in the media.