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Published on: 1/1/2002
Last Visited: 2/6/2003
Christopher A. Hart, FAA assistant administrator for system safety, flew a specially equipped Bonanza from AOPA headquarters in Frederick, Maryland.
"This makes you think," Hart said upon returning from the flight that featured a pressure system failure in simulated instrument conditions. (Bonanzas use a pressure system, rather than vacuum, to power gyro instruments.)
"The hardware generally works so well that it's difficult to stay prepared for a gyro failure.I applaud the study and efforts of the foundation to educate pilots."
In photo: ASF Executive Director Bruce Landsberg (right) prepares Christopher A. Hart, FAA assistant administrator for system safety, for the spatial disorientation experiment he is about to fly.
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