by Ken Ibold

It’s easy to get fixated on what’s possible, so much so that what seems impossible sneaks up on you. So it goes when pilots without instrument ratings plunge ahead into areas of low clouds – or worse.

While it’s easy to armchair-quarterback and grandly assure yourself that you would never be so dense, consider that pilots who run into this kind of trouble certainly don’t set out on suicide missions or blindly accept obscene amounts of risk. In fact, the siren’s song of destination have caused countless aviators to founder upon the rocks. …