Originally Posted by
Av8er1550
I agree with this. I flew single pilot freight in a twin and I think that was more to handle than a jet. At least with a jet you can usually climb thru it pretty quick or request to. Some twins you have to try to climb or descend and hope you find warmer air.
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Agreed, a jet is easier to handle mechanically, but staying ahead of it is harder. A rapidly accelerating and climbing jet, restricted to 2,000' by ATC turning into a black hole is very easy to lose control over--spatial disorientation is easy to get and very hard to control if you never experienced it. A couple of thousand hours of single-pilot IFR in fighters, and few hundred of solo check running and dozens of departures from BKL makes me lean toward SD LOC event as the odds-on favorite explanation. Of course, a dual PFD failure is possiblity as is other mechanical problems just less likely.