In terms of travel hours or miles travelled? There is a slight
difference here, obviously.
> The only problem is, if you make an error, there is a high probability
> that that error is going to be last error you make.
That's ok as long as some other pilot on some other plane does the
critical mistake.
> Most of the pilot training, once you get the basic coordination right, is
> devoted to recognizing unsafe conditions and getting out of them as soon
> as possible or avoiding them in the first place.
I solve this by trying not to be in a tin can travelling 9000 m above
ground at subsonic speed very often. They all come down eventually,
you know. (I don't own a car, either. I try to compensate that by
living atop a fault in quake country).
> In this case, apparently it was not as clear as it originally seemed, and
> according to one pilot report that I heard you could not see the horizon.
> In such a case, the proper thing would have been to turn 180 degrees and
> go back to where you came from, since it can be assumed that the weather
> was better there.
Was this somewhere in the Caribbean, or something?
> The NTSB report on this crash is going to be interesting.