You're way off base here. The pilot wasn't just instrument rated he was a CFII. He taught other pilots how to fly on instruments. As for the aircraft not having the avionics necessary to fly IFR. Seriously?
They shouldn't have flown that morning. Those corporate pilots can be under pressure to fly anyway but the pilot always has the final say. Apparently they were going to be late for an event, and were then delayed at the airport for sometime-so they were in a rush.
As I pointed out in Post #144 Hard to imagine that the pilot couldn't say: "Sorry Kobe, even LAPD is grounding copters, Gigi is gonna have to miss her game".
I had not heard he was a CFII. Maybe this wasn't CFIT? Hard to imagine there was no terrain warning on board.
Yes. imho it wasn't CFIT. CFIT counts when the caft is under control. At the end, he went into a relatively rappid assent and then descended at a high rate - it's not like he ran into a mountain. The pilot just lost it. Even if both engines failed it wouldn't look like that.
I don't see any way that he could have been flying legally. There are rules for visibility, separation from clouds and minimum height above ground. I don't see how those rules could have been followed on this flight. The pilot had to tell Kobe that he couldn't do it - that he can't just fly low over that nice wide highway. I don't believe more laws would help.
Nobody needs to make anything up either. It's all a waste of time in my opinion. Bryant was no more human than you or me. He died, we all will. The more they make this a spectacle, the less I care. They even postponed or delayed a Lakers game because of it.
I've heard that it was. However, at some point the pilot canceld his IFR plan, switching to VFR. I don't know for a fact, but I think he used Burbank Apt as a legal way to descend through clouds under IFR and then switch to VFR when he broke out before landing. Then instead of landing he got permission to leave the airport rather than land. This is relatively common practice when the final destination doesn't have IFR approaches (like a small airport or in this case the sports facility). Actually, since visibility at the airport was too low for VFR he switched from IFR to MVFR (marginal vfr) - which allows for less visibility when flying in the immediate airport area. Once he left the airport area, he was legally required to follow VFR rules. That makes me think that visibility in the area was actually too low for legal VFR flight - it's not that likley that weather outside the airport area was better than airport weather! From there on, I suspect he was flying illegally.
Who gives a toss if he was black? Someone mentioned he basically came from a poor family, Peabody linked his Wiki that his dad was a big NBA player and Bryant didn't come from a poor family. Step off the high horse of race. It's lame.
Why, as a President Trump has improved my own personal economy. He does what I expect a President to do, Kobe just took up air time on TV that a productive program could have aired.
Not to mention, he does what the people elected him to do. The ones who hate him and didn't vote for him get mad at his policies as if they voted for him and he's not doing what he said. I don't know what they expected. Same cowering republicans they were used to I guess.
Your comment was about, philandering , nothing else, now you try to quantify it by changing your tune. Nice try! It might work with the rest of the tRUMP crowd but not those of us who think rather than react.
There's nothing to retort. Trump is making America the country it used to be in the 80's, making peoples' lives better, doing something for the people. I understand Bryant had an effect on some lives, but not near the millions Trump is helping. Stay mad.
~ Apparently for some reason the pilot was in a hurry to get to destination. Not sure .... I wonder why only one pilot with all those passengers ? Thankfully nobody on the ground was involved.
Here is an idea, let the dead rest in peace, and why do you care, if people liked him, and mourn his loss, let it be, you are trying to make his death less important, for your own selfish reasons.
