In Koboldt's book, Sylvia Wrigley the aviation journo has a good chapter on "Realistic Space Flight". Relevant to Perma-Venus Flight, she teaches that bad pilots over Earth do this thing called the Graveyard Spiral, when they are blinded and can't (or won't) read their instruments. Here is what others say of this.
Over Venus, such a Darwin nominee would be a new pilot in the acid cloudbanks (probably dealing with the floating farms), or such a one up in the flotilla if separated therefrom and drifting into night.
Venus assures that pilots both in flotilla and transport be trained for these eventualities. Both get night training at least; in the internship, as copilots.
Arguably if flotilla pilots should fall into the clouds, they are screwed anyway. So piloting flotilla is a prerequisite for piloting transport.
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