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  • Posts

    • Lord Ratner
      Mid-Air Collision in DC

      By Lord Ratner · Posted

      No, that's very true. In the tanker it would take far more hours to be experienced. 8 hours where 75% of it is reading a magazine obviously doesn't compare to 1.5 hours in a Viper.   But part of this is what we consider experienced. I don't think of a guy with one assignment on the line as experienced. There's "Mission Ready" and then there's "experienced." Another element is time. You can shove 10,000 hours into one year (if that was possible) and it wouldn't make you experienced necessarily. Some things just take time for the brain to process and for you personally go through enough scenarios and enough experiences to be, experienced.   I've got about 2,500 hours in 7 years at the airlines and I think I'm realistically just now starting to be experienced. I don't fly much so it took me a bit longer than it might take someone else, but we have lots of captains now with 2 years at AA. They are qualified, but they are not experienced.    Anyways, still agree with busdriver and others who blame DCA as the root cause:  
    • brabus
      Mid-Air Collision in DC

      By brabus · Posted

      Depends on the community. I can’t speak for Army RW, but a 1000 hr IP in a fighter is fairly experienced. Flight hours cannot necessarily be compared across communities to determine comparable experience/capability levels. 
    • Lord Ratner
      Mid-Air Collision in DC

      By Lord Ratner · Posted

      I don't think it's a coincidence that a regional crew and a low-hours Army crew crashed. That doesn't mean it was the primary cause, but the Swiss cheese model for safety has always suggested that many failures line up to create a mishap. Lack of experience is one of them.   No way I would have accepted that circling clearance. I've refused similar at other airports far less congested than DCA. And the guys a fly with are in the same boat. Experience isn't just about maintaining altitude. It's about knowing when to say "no."   I believe you. That means you have a largely inexperienced corps of helicopter pilots.    This isn't about dick waving or which service is better or really anything other than accepting the reality that normal ≠ experienced. You simple cannot be experienced with those hours. You can be hot shit, you can be talented and confident and all sorts of other things, but not experienced.    Pretending otherwise is exactly what military leadership has been doing to justify reducing the training and currency of pilots.    That doesn't mean you can't get the mission done. I certainly did. But there's no fucking way 500-hour-LordRatner made better decisions than 6,000-hour-LordRatner does. I'm honestly not sure how this is controversial. Would *you* have flown that close to a regional aircraft landing at DCA, at night, on nogs?   Is this some sort of White Knight defense of the military pilot? I don't fault her for the DCA procedures, and I don't fault her for her own experience. The former is the fault of the FAA and the latter is the fault of the Army. Again, I do not agree with people picking apart her career and motivations with no knowledge of them. But we do have direct knowledge of her experience, and commenting on it is fair game.  Her instructor pilot had what, 1,000 hours? If that's true then he was barely experienced, and certainly not an experienced instructor. Again, not his fault.
    • Duck
      ANG Pilot to UPT/UCT... how?

      By Duck · Posted

      I’ll check when I go back to work and see if I still have it. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app
    • Clark Griswold
      KC-46A Info

      By Clark Griswold · Posted

      A bit old but if KC-Y is still being considered this is the way https://breakingdefense.com/2023/11/airbus-exploring-development-of-future-tanker-based-on-a330neo/    

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