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To: randog

Because a lot of "instructors" are nothing more than CPLs who can fly an airplane to PTS standards from the right seat.


28 posted on 05/15/2005 6:00:25 AM PDT by Archangelsk (Handbasket, hell. Get used to the concept.)
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To: Archangelsk; All
Because a lot of "instructors" are nothing more than CPLs who can fly an airplane to PTS standards from the right seat.

The pilot of this Cessna was NOT (repeat NOT) a CFI (Certified Flight Instructor, for those non-aviators out there) - he was simply a private pilot, flying with a student pilot. I use past tense because the FAA has pulled his ticket.

I'm figuring these guys were both simply woefully ignorant of the D.C. ADIZ restrictions. They didn't file a flight plan, their radio was marginal, they weren't monitoring appropriate frequencies. It seems unlikely this was intentional penetration of the ADIZ as such action would be essentially 'suicide by shootdown'.

32 posted on 05/15/2005 12:12:39 PM PDT by IonImplantGuru (Give me heaven... or a 637!)
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