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I'm not sure if the flight plan shown on flightaware is the actual filed route or not. But if that is what they had in their GPS, then they basically continued their last heading after it reached the end of the flight plan. I think it is simply a coincidence that heading happened to take them back ...

I'm not sure if the flight plan shown on flightaware is the actual filed route or not. But if that is what they had in their GPS, then they basically continued their last heading after it reached the end of the flight plan. I think it is simply a coincidence that heading happened to take them back t...

I think the most likely scenario is some sort of depressurization event that incapacitated all occupants. It seems the passengers likely had some knowledge of private flying, and would probably have been capable in that amount of time to figure out how to use the radios. As far as why it turned arou...

Why does he want to be rich? That might be a place to start the discussion. When I was 16 I might have wanted to be rich, because I believed that it would prove that I was "somebody" and people would look up to me, and I'd have lots of friends. On the other hand perhaps this is an excellen...

Curious how Mennonet views pledging allegiance ...vote or discuss

It is hard to justify the cost of flying a small plane based on any rational math. Then again I can also think of a number of other activities that are considered perfectly acceptable for Mennonites to engage in that don't make much better financial sense.

I have no idea. I don't have any inside information on this. I only have interest in it because a friend knew one of the passengers, and I'm a Mennonite, and a pilot, and have about the same flight time the pilot had etc. But I don't think anyone ever becomes a pilot because they want to get somewhe...

Take this map of his route. The magenta line is a straight line from his departure to his destination. The green line is his flight path.
https://ibb.co/541jpGB

Could you elaborate more on why most pilots wouldn’t choose the flight path that Rod did? The radar map at the time of the accident shows the gap between the 2 cells that he attempted to go between to be about 3 miles wide. FAA says, stay 5 -20 miles away from thunderstorms. There is no way that ev...

I dare you to! Not sure if I can put it into words, but contributing factors include the tone of Katz's analysis (for instance, maybe Rod didn't have instrument skills, maybe he did - just because he didn't have the rating doesn't automatically mean no skill, I think he relies too heavily on the AD...