On Sat, 08 Jan 2005 11:21:09 +0800, budgie wrote:


The pilot's attention needs to be outside the aircraft looking for other
aircraft, not screwing around playing with microphone wires.

Rule of thumb here is 90% outside, 10% on instruments for VFR

Messing too much with microphone wires will make you a candidate for
the Darwin price due to the Controlled Flight into Terrain (CFIT)
syndrome.

A well known case is the L1011 crash in Florida killing 100, when the
crew were too occupied fixing the landing gear light problem and
forgot to fly the aircraft.

http://www.aviationcrm.com/humanerror.htm

Paul OH3LWR