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If you’re an Army aviator on first assignment to 2nd CAB, you will be immediately offered to extend and progress right away, or self identify as a one year guy, in which case they do the minimum possible to move you along. The Army has asked for years to make this happen and spent piles of cash to build up post to facilitate making it a command sponsored assignment. The fact it’s happening is a shock to nobody that remembers briefings from 15 years ago about where Korea was headed. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Sorry, that’s 7-10 Rods/second Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

No need to say anymore - root cause of 99% of our problems identified.

You lost me, what's that in freedom units?

First it didn't matter because the discharge was into the ground, now you need a source? Google it, bud. From Wyatt Earp and the "Cowboy Load" in revolvers to the very reason the series 80 was designed in the first place. Or are the titanium firing pins just for looks? Or the S&W Victory navy fatality that resulted in a safer design being procured. I'm not sure what point you're trying to make. Gun safety engineering hasn't improved? The 1911 community is always so defensive. Imagine arguing that a ’67 Mustang was just as safe to drive as a 2025 model, and asking the other guy to prove it. The 1911 was a huge leap forward... a century ago. Now it's just a neat gun with lots of nostalgia that almost no professionals in the world use (real shooting jobs, not competition shooting). I like mine. But I like my revolver too. Both are outdated relics. The P320 is safe enough that it takes *a lot* of active testing to get it to discharge. But that's not safe enough for what we expect from firearms today. Agreed. But you would have much less difficulty making our elders' guns discharge if you wanted to.

As we further democratize participation in the lower tier of airspace (which is growing exponentially in users thanks to sUAS) we’re gonna have to accept that basing air traffic control off methods developed in the 60s are no longer optimal. I say that kind of stuff out loud in a room full of dinosaurs to blank stares because in their minds voice comms are perfect and nobody has ever had to miss/wait on critical information passed via a single comm exchange while things are moving at a minimum 35-50 meters/second. Dynamic airspace management, digital predictive modeling, and visualization changes are the only way we really move this forward. Anything else is a bandaid at this point. There are company’s out there that have already demonstrated the capability to be expanded, but it’s stuck in program management hell of convincing some GS civilian who hasn’t been in air traffic control for over 15 years that technology (like radar did before) will change the way we safely manage airspace, only if we invest in it. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

https://www.afrc.af.mil/News/Article/4250082/grey-wolves-roam-alabama-skies/ Not a video but some cool photos of the MH-139.

When this situation got to the point of a collision alarm, ATC should have directed the RJ to execute an immediate go around. I agree that holding points work would have worked well in this situation, and if helo traffic is already passed said point, don't direct DCA traffic to 33.

source for that?

The point is not that you *can* make an older 1911 safe. That's a bit obvious. It was claimed that "our elders'" never heard of a 1911 or receiver going off. Prosuper is already an elder (🤣) so his elders are from the 1920's-1950's, and 1911s and revolvers were most definitely not safe in that era, and were in fact discharging unintentionally with regularity, even in comparison to the beleaguered P320. No gun that goes off when you drop it (or snag it on your clothes) is safe by any modern definition of the word.

I think cameras should just be installed on public roads and if a vehicle is recorded illegally/dangerously passing, speeding more than X over, etc. the registered owner gets a $1000 fine in the mail (or whatever amount with graduated cost vs. incident numbers). Copy camera can’t prove the owner was driving, but doesn’t matter because it’s their vehicle and they control who drives it. No need for cops wasting time at speed traps, expensive UAS, etc. Also to be clear, big proponent of privacy and limited gov, but there is no right to privacy in public spaces. And I have zero tolerance for self-absorbed asshole drivers.

In 10 years, I could see something like this cruising the freeways. I believe this was supposed to replace the Shadow UAV but I heard it was canceled. VTOL so no launcher/runway required. With AI it could look for the most egregious offenders doing 90-100 MPH plus and track them back to the nest followed by a knock on the door by local LE

Completely on board, but locking onto a red hering like ADS-B accomplishes nothing. Completely revamping technology and how ATC executes in the NAS - well now we’re onto something.

Or maybe, since the FAA has not gotten the job done, it's time for somebody further up the chain to get the job done. Additionally, if the investigation exposes issues that are safety related… even if they are not directly related to the mishap… I would hope they would address and fix them, so more people won't die in the future. We have a former helicopter pilot in our squadron who flew out of DC, and talking to him it sure sounds like the entire place needs to be revamped.

I knew what you meant. The series 70 drop fail requires you to drop it on the muzzle. It shoots the ground. I also think it's a reasonably low probability of happening. Otherwise, it's pretty safe at normal duty spring rates and trigger geometries. My competition guns are more questionable. The P320 should theoretically should be better, however the striker safety failure rate seems to be pretty high (no more 320 advantage over 1911). The slide to FCU play seems to be enough to allow the sear to release the striker in some cases, which inherently also skips the secondary notch. All of the analogous components in a 1911 are in the frame, with essentially no play. Side note: You can basically make a series 70 gun drop safe by using a titanium firing pin and an 2x extra power return spring. This is how Springfield made CA legal 1911s. You'll need to run a fairly heavy (23# or so) mainspring to make it work. I'm not sure you can actually buy a Series 80 anymore for what it's worth.

Earlier in this thread, I laid out my well-informed hunch that the pilot in charge was not focused on her duties, enamored with the D.C. lifestyle, and eager to head to medical school. Some folks here got butt hurt. Well if it looks like a distracted duck flying through congested airspace... its probably a distracted duck ---- The helicopter was twice warned by an air traffic controller about the approaching passenger jet, once about two minutes before the collision and again about 90 seconds later, the presentation shows. Both times, the helicopter said it could see the other plane and requested a “visual separation,” in which they would be allowed to navigate around the jet. A controller approved that. About 20 seconds before the crash, air traffic control instructed the helicopter to "pass behind" the jet — but that command wasn't heard in the Black Hawk because of a brief audio interruption from their microphone, the cockpit transcript states. Five seconds after the second warning to watch out for the incoming plane, Eaves, the helicopter instructor, told Lobach, “Alright, kinda come left for me ma’am, I think that’s why he’s asking,” to which she replied, “Sure." Eaves then said, “We’re kinda out towards the middle,” and Lobach said, “Oh-kay fine," drawing out the okay, according to the transcript. https://people.com/final-seconds-before-american-airlines-dc-crash-revealed-by-ntsb-11781679

Many remote pilots at Kunsan extended to 18 months to get a better assignment on the backside. Most accompanied tours at Osan started at two years. On the Army side, I knew multiple guys that extended their two year accompanied assignment to three years as the Army pace of life was much more family friendly in Korea than stateside. Especially during the height of Iraq and Afghanistan. Might have changed a bit, but given that many Army units are doing 9+ month rotations still, I'd be many guys are choosing to extend to have some family stability. Obviously that is for guys there with their families, probably a bit different for single guys...

A pre-series-80 1911. That's what I meant by "a 1911 or revolver that our elders used to carry." I would choose a modern 1911 with a pin block over the 320. No worries if you don't agree, but those guns were not safe, just badass 🤣😂.

Your larger final point is fine and I agree, but your specific risk analysis of a 1911 vs the P320 is nonsense.

Oh don’t worry, we initiated a scramble to field tablets and stratus that also don’t solve the actual problem, but can be briefed to leadership as, “did something.” Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Dong first would also be acceptable.

That simple change (“SHALL hold route 4 traffic east of point X with aircraft on 33 approach”) would solve this problem. So simple, yet people are bitching about mil ADS-B.

I agree. It's a dumb to fly under landing traffic. Especially with no safe separation provided for both aircraft. They should have not been cleared to continue on route four via visual separation at night with an aircraft circling to land 33. They used to not clear you to continue on route four via visual separation with landing traffic to 33. They would have you hold over Haines Point or something similar.