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ACCIDENT ANALYSIS

What you can't see
Night flying best practices
» By David Jack Kenney

IN NOVEMBER 2014, a Cessna 172 took off
from Winchester, Virginia (elevation 726
feet mean sea level), on the second leg
of a dual night cross-country. Radar data
showed it maintaining a straight ground
track, a steady airspeed, and a constant
altitude of 3,000 feet for the next 37 minutes-until its progress was interrupted
by a ridge 3,400 feet high. The student
survived and was rescued the following
morning. The instructor wasn't as lucky.
Other CFIs who'd known the instructor were baffled. They characterized him
as "cautious," "thorough," and "terrainconscious." No one understood how his
student was allowed to establish the airplane at an altitude not just hundreds of
feet below the maximum elevation figures
(MEF) in mountainous terrain, but 800
feet lower than the elevation of the destination airport in Hot Springs, Virginia.
Unfortunately, these uncharacteristic
lapses aren't as rare as might be hoped,
and too often catch pilots who are more
than experienced enough to know better.
A designated pilot examiner on his
way home from giving a Sport Pilot
checkride flew his Cherokee 140 into
a cliff in northeastern New York. The
accident occurred 40 minutes after sunset, and the wreckage was found
600 feet below the summit.

58 /

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A Commander 690A took off from
Mesa, Arizona, an hour after sunset,
climbed to 4,500 feet, and flew straight
and level into a 5,000-foot mountain.
The 1,150-hour commercial pilot preferred to navigate using the moving map
on his iPad, but this time inbound traffic
required him to maintain runway heading for a couple of miles before he could
intercept the GPS-direct course. Those
two miles were the difference between
missing and hitting the hill.
This is what's meant by "loss of
situational awareness." Although the
potential for mischief peaks (sorry) in
the mountains at night, the remedies are
far less obscure than the landscape. It's
good to know where you are and where
you're going, but the most crucial step is
choosing your cruising altitude during
preflight planning. Add at least 1,000
feet to all relevant MEFs and stay there
until you see your destination-even if
you get lost, you won't hit whatever's a
thousand feet below.
If the ceilings won't allow that, well,
this just might not be the evening to
make that flight.
Air Safety Institute statistician David Jack
Kenny loves flying at night-at appropriate
altitudes.


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