Something that is supposed to take about half a chapter is getting more and more complicated. I'd probably scrap it if I wouldn't have to rewrite the rest of the whole book. My pilot is an IFR 30-yr veteran flyer, used to be a professional. I just can't see him leaving a fuel cap off or running out of gas. It's not easy thinking of something he can't control that would take him down. My former tech advisor suggested windshear. To put him over rough terrain was easy ... just reroute him because of weather. It should've been no big deal to him. But couple that gusting winds and therein lies a problem. So that's a bad idea?