Flying Dumbth.
I'm fascinated to watch companies like Cirrus embrace the notion of putting more and more electronic devices in the cockpit of small aircraft. IMO, a GPS is a good thing, but that is the only thing electronic I want in the cockpit when I'm flying. And I'm not going to use it for approaches.
It is indeed "dumbth" to rely on electronic devices at all in the cockpit. You do have to trust your instruments in IMC, but I'll be damned if I'll ever trust computer software, or hardware for that matter, enough to fly by it.
And I stand by my earlier statement. The pilot fucked up major when he took off without doing a decent preflight. It *was* his fault and usually I am loathe to blame pilots. But this case is as clear-cut as you can find.
AFA the pitot icing up, guess what the airspeed indicator becomes when that happens? Think that's too hard for a pilot to figure out? I don't.
