He 68-year-old, 600-hour pilot of a Lancair ES - a 310 hp four-seat composite kitplane that he himself had built - had had an instrument rating for almost seven years. Though he had logged 176 hours of simulated instrument time, however, he had spent only four hours in actual instrument conditions.rnOn an August morning in 2008, he and a single passenger filed IFR from Ketchikan, on the Alaska panhandle, to Mountain Home, Idaho.
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