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Originally Posted by Akbush
I was working that night in november....and refused a flight in those conditions...to that same area....because it wasn't Safe to fly at night in 500 and 1 scud running in pitch black across the delta. I remember the crash night very well.
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Originally Posted by aviatorhi
Considering the weather conditions from yesterdays crash I'd venture to say it had more to do with operator error and could have just as easily happened in Orlando, FL as it could have in Bethel, AK.
I wasn't talking about November... I was talking about the training flight yesterday. Which from what I've heard was CAVU.
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Originally Posted by Akbush
Oh..no no sir..lol i beg to differ greatly. There is a culture issue.....a big one....the culture is what leads to these types of accident causing behaviors. Try and scud run your 208 or fly a crj at 200 feet AGL for fun in florida or california and see how well that goes over.
On a training flight in CAVU conditions your argument is unfounded, as you would neither conduct initial aircraft training in the soup, nor would you need to scud run. Also I'd never be caught dead in an RJ.
Additionally, anything you approach with the right mindset and right plan you can accomplish, from flying into a gravel trip in marginal weather all the way through to operating jet transports into remote atolls. The problem with Alaska flying is the lack of planning, the flying itself is not as inherently dangerous as is often claimed, the lack of planning is what causes it to be. Among others look at the Era Twotter crash about 10 years ago out in Kipnuk (I think), as well as the 2011 Hageland crash, also at Kipnuk. Nothing particularly special about either one of those days or conditions, just poor decisions to "land long" when it was not required.