Comment on “Determining the difference between local acceleration and local gravity: Applications of the equivalence principle to relativistic trajectories” [Am. J. Phys. <b>92</b>(6), 444–449 (2024)]

Editor's Note: A straightforward approximate algebraic procedure for introducing locally flat coordinates in a Schwarzschild spacetime is undertaken in this Comment on the recent leading order differential approach elucidated by Steven Balbus in the June 2024 issue. It is very likely that instructors even in special relativity could employ this technique and thereby obtain the correct deflection angle for light in an accelerated frame of reference.