Comments by "Reecom98" (@reecom9884) on "" video.

It appears that there was an intermittent coastal sea fog bank layer offshore. Under Instrument Meteorological Conditions (IMC) requires the pilot to fly by Instrument Flight Rules (IFR). The pilot appeared to be flying Visual Flight Rules (VFR) and got vertigo and became spatial disoriented. The full ATC recording shows that they advise the pilot to divert to a nearby runway. The pilot gave no information that it was a mechanical issue and only said he was struggling to maintain heading.
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@christianhenry4324 He wasn’t flying IFR and appeared to not have filed an IFR plan. The ATC recording showed him flying at 2,000 MSL well below control airspace, when he went below the radar coverage.
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@christianhenry4324 IFR means you are under direct control flying in control airspace under the ATC. Technically, you can fly using instruments only in uncontrol airspace meant for VFR flight, but you wouldn’t know what planes are in your airspace and ATC wouldn’t be watching you unless you ask them, which he apparently asks them to.
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@christianhenry4324 When leaving an airport with a controlled tower, you are given an attitude and heading and told to contact departure control for further directions leaving the control area. If you are flying VFR they direct you away from the control airspace to VFR airspace. No controlled tower would let a plane depart the airfield unless there is a minimum weather clearance.
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@christianhenry4324 If you looked at the flight radar24 clip they showed the flight path. It appears that he left the airport and departure control directed him south into VFR airspace. The crash wasn’t at the end of the runway heading, but when he was going south.
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@RaceMentally He was flying too low to be in clouds. He got disoriented by the early morning marine fog flying VFR and couldn’t distinguish where the sea surface and sky was.
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@lvlysticgirl He appears to have his instrument rating but was rusty. His trouble maintaining a heading sounds like he had a spatial disorientation between what his artificial horizon instrument was telling him and his inner ear. He couldn’t perform a well-coordinated turn when he tried to change heading flying VFR when he was unable to see the horizon because of the marine fog layer over the sea.
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@christianhenry4324 Disorientation is when the instruments and your inner ear fluid disagree. The breaking tie is your eyes looking out at the horizon or your rigid instrument training. In Alaska bush pilots become disoriented in clear bright weather when they can’t tell where the snow level and sky is and crash into the ground.
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@christianhenry4324 You said that the pilot was flying IFR when he crashed. You said “it was overcast 1500 at the time of the accident. I would find it extremely hard to believe he wasn’t flying a instrument departure procedure”. No tower controller would allow a plane’s transponder taking off in IMC with a VFR code.
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@christianhenry4324 In my posts I stated information given at the time. Your posts gave wild assumptions about flying IFR. About taking off… “Do expect planes to teleport from the surface directly into controlled airspace. You fly departure procedures for that exact reason” assuming it was IMC when he took off. Maybe you are the one to take a check ride for your proficiency?
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@christianhenry4324 You can actively start the IFR plan on the ground or in the air, but the ATC controller never said to him to IDENT when he talked to them about a possible problem to quickly show the ATC where you are on his radar; he was flying VFR.
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@christianhenry4324 With multiple IFRs being controlled by the ATC on his screen, the IDENT highlights your position. When contacting first, the ATC asks you to IDENT to verify he’s looking at you on his screen and can ask for an IDENT anytime in your flight if there are flights with similar ID tags on his screen entering his control space. Again, you said he was flying IFR; you really need a check-ride.
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