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A superior pilot uses their superior judgment to avoid needing their superior skills.

Getting disoriented in those conditions is expected. Knowingly flying into those conditions without an instrument rating is very bad judgment.

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You and the commenter I was responding to are correct that the conditions were disorienting, and he should not have been flying without an instrument rating, but I bristled at the cheap shot.

His flight instructor offered, or really pleaded, to make the flight with him. It was clearly beyond his skills, but the Kennedeys had a long history of surviving reckless actions.

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