HOLY SHIT or an inch is as good as a mile.

Flying V.F.R. into adverse conditions and loosing control of the aircraft is one of the leading causes of death in Aircraft accidents....... followed by the stall spin...  then graveyard spiral...... Byron thinks anyway.

But don't believe me ask John John Kennedy I am pretty sure he will swear to it.

Byron was flying up a gorge........ what is that river ... in the North West.... The Columbia river, ya that is it.... I think.....

anyway he was in an Orange and White High Wing single engine Cessna... with an Instructor pilot even, but Byron was at the controls.........

It was a pure Shit day....   the clouds were low... very fucking low... like 300' above the river with granite walls on either side.... and lowering....  poof into solid non visibility they went... push it down and get under again even lower


there is a charming name for it in the aviation community   ' Scud Running'

Now if you have never experienced spatial disorientation.... don't think you are exempt.... they went into the clouds again and Byron looked at the Artificial horizon and it was laid over in a 60 degree bank.... but he was certain and felt they were straight and level....  he tried to slow the plane down by increasing the angle of attack and retarding the power ... next thing they knew... they came out the bottom of the clouds in a steep bank in an accelerated stall... plummeting earthward.... in a steep nearly inverted bank..... he pushed the yoke full forward and rammed the throttle into the fire wall... got the wings level and and the plane went into a secondary stall of sorts... he guess's  at 1' above the river the wing stalled at just the perfect moment... yoke full back now stall horn blaring like a crazy man playing the kazoo  and  the whole thing dropped in the ravage current....    both he and the instructor  got out and drifted downstream alive unscathed.... and the plane appeared to have very little damage actually... except of course it was destroyed as it was totally wet.....  a parts wagon...........

HOLY SHIT..............or an inch is as good as a mile.