Real Pilot Story FROM MISCUE The Price of Unrealistic Expectations Can Be Dire TO RESCUE BY MACHTELD SMITH ON MAY 26, 2012, N4640L DEPARTED ON A CROSS-COUNTRY FLIGHT FROM LODI, CALIFORNIA, TO MOUNTAIN HOME, IDAHO. ON BOARD THE CESSNA 172 WERE THE NON-INSTRUMENT RATED 300-HOUR PRIVATE PILOT, HIS WIFE, AND ONE OF HIS DAUGHTERS.