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Originally Posted by flipper35
Experience and competency are not always related. She may have had 50 hour or 500 but she clearly was not competent to fly in there. She could have diverted, she could have asked for vectoring from the tower assuming they have radar coverage.
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She had to have the right equipment, transponder Mode C, etc., to even be in the Hobby airspace so they could have sent her away and followed her progress.
Trust me, the controllers did all the right things.
One of the the things I used to do as an instrument check pilot, standardization pilot, NVG instructor pilot, maintenance test pilot, etc. when things would get a bit salty is get straight and level, get a few minutes to orient then get back in the game.
She needed to know what to ask, to focus on on anything other than gethomeitis to Hobby.