| SAFETY PILOT LANDMARK ACCIDENT | I N A D E Q U AT E T R A I N I N G O R I N A D E Q U AT E D E C I S I O N M A K I N G ? THIS MONTH’S LANDMARK ACCIDENT IS NOTABLE not because of the accident; visual flight into marginal VFR or instrument meteorological conditions (IMC) is not as B Y B R U C E L A N D S B E R G rare as it should be. There are constant reminders by the Air Safety Institute and most aviation publications and websites that this is not a life-prolonging activity. Rather, it was the legal maneuvering afterward that ILLUSTRATION BY ALEX WILLIAMSON nearly changed the training landscape. 76 | AOPA PILOT September 2012