What can we learn?
Jim Davis has 15,000 hours of immensely varied flying experience, including 10,000 hours civil and military flying instruction. He is an established author, his current projects being an instructors’ manual and a collection of Air Accident analyses, called ‘Choose not to Crash’.
Jim’s Analysis
This was a very sad accident. Everyone knew and admired Val. Hell, you don’t put in more than 22,000 hand-flown hours without becoming well known. She had an ATPL, a current instrument rating and nearly 1800 hours on 210s alone. She could hardly have been better qualified.
So what went wrong?
Let’s look at the stuff that was stacked against her. The weather was vile. Summer thunderstorms are notorious for their violence nature and their tendency
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