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Maybe because she’s a female pilot and with the appalling DEI finger pointing from El Presidente the family doesn’t want their daughter’s name drug through the mud by a bunch of fucking stupid neck beards

If it was my daughter I'd do the exact same thing. Imagine losing your daughter/son and stepping into the social media world to see every possible evil conspiratorial thing being said about your child. Whatever can be done to lessen the pain and stress would be done if I were them. Regardless of how many hours she could have had, it's not going to stop the fucktards from dragging him/her down. I rarely flew on a sortie that had a crew full of 1,000+ hour folks. There is always going to be a low hour guy on board getting training. Why is there no talk about the instructor/evaluator on board?

I never prefer the visual, give me vectors to ILS final every time. The visual is a just ATC's way of being lazy or trying to shove 10 pounds into 5 pound sock. Never understood the desire to "get on the ground quicker." At best you get to the gate a minute or two prior. This job should be boring. I once had an FO who was super geeked about wanting to do a side-step. He's senior to me and has been on this plane for 12 years (9 years longer than me), so he knows what he's doing, so I said ok, lets do it. Everything goes fine, we show up to the gate about 3 minutes earlier than if we hadn't sidestepped...then we waited 10 minutes for a park crew lol.

Actively tariffing two “allies” who continue to not GAF about our shared borders and are directly contributing to significant amounts of American deaths and general degradation of society. Trump uses tariffs as leverage, and he has been extremely successful at wielding them. CA and Mex are welcome to FAFO, or they can start actually doing something about the shit they let pour into our country. Now to the topic of tariffs as a baseline/long term economic strategy, I’m not sure yet. They will certainly raise prices in the short term, but if that yields substantial growth in American production/less reliance on foreign imports in the long term, that is a good thing and potentially worth the short term cost sacrifice. Secondly, if this is done in conjunction with reducing/eliminating the income tax (not holding my breath, but for discussion’s sake), that would essentially mean I pay more for consumables, but way less to the gov’s pockets where I have little to no control over where my money goes. I have control over my own spending, I have zero control over congressional spending. I prefer the former and I think most Americans do too.

Since the speculation ice has been broken, seems like there’s a serious problem having a published heli route that crosses the 3D visual glide path for 33. Normal 3.0° PAPIs will put you at 200’/.66NM which crosses Route 4 at exactly the max alt.

Most class B airports, the visual approach is STAR/vectors to intercept an ILS/RNAV final. The visual clearance means the controller can space em a little tighter. Smaller airports, like above, or the visual is more on the crew to get it lined up on final. Also visuals are used for terrain airports where instrument approaches restrict ATC to way fewer aircraft. Circling is rare, save for the sidestep which is usually offered well out, but DCA is the exception.

Have you seen that anywhere else?

More importantly they should immediately stop relying on visual as the primary decon method in busy airspace. I’m not saying kill it everywhere in the NAS, but I have no issue with killing it in class B and within an approach corridor in Class C if an aircraft is on a segment of the approach. Story time: I almost midaired once in class C when the controller gave very shitty description of traffic, I called visual on the wrong traffic (but it correlated based on his description), then missed his “intended” factor traffic only because I continued a visual scan and maneuvered to avoid. Mind you I’m an experienced pilot and this was not a necessarily busy airspace. He tried to violate me, and the FAA ended up violating him and pulling his cert because he used incorrect phraseology and gave a poor traffic point out that correlated with the wrong aircraft. That’s a great example of how visual decon should not be fully relied on. Now take my story and put it in a very congested airspace at night with a ton of cultural lighting, water-based visual illusions, etc.

The left weaponized the justice system to go after Trump, now Trump is using the legal system to beat the crap out of Big Tech and some of the big news organizations. During the election it is alleged that CBS 60 minutes edited and altered Kamala Harris' interview to remove her word salad and make her look better. Trump filed a $10 Billion Dollar voter interference lawsuit, CBS refused to turn over the transcripts, called Trump's lawsuit “completely without merit” and promised to vigorously fight it after it was filed. Now they are in settlement talks after being ordered to hand over the transcripts. ABC news recently settled a defamation case with Trump for $15M plus another $1m to Trump's lawyers and they apologized. Shortly thereafter George Stephanopoulos Deleted his X Account. Meta paid $25M to settle Trump's lawsuit against the company over its decision to suspend his social media accounts following the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol. Interesting to see the pendulum swing back, hopefully Big tech can remain neutral and the press can finally act as the 4th estate rather than extension of the DNC.

Are you really saying Canada, who we've been aligned with culturally, military, economically for at least 100 years isn't an ally? They were ride or die with us in Afghanistan. Let's planes land in their county on 9/11 and took those people into their homes. Not an ally? What is an ally then?

100ft of discrepancy can get eaten up real quick with instrument error, location of static ports on airframes, and a sneeze. Keep in mind, it isn't just an NVGs limit peripheral vision thing. Airframe parts block lines of sight. In this case the "A pillars" and windscreen framing on both aircraft. The procedures around DC are stupid.

In 2025 it’s unacceptable that we rely on a pilot moving at 100-200 kts to visually acquire another 100-200 kt airborne target based on a 3rd-party visobs talk-on at a third location with no common reference point - in Class B, at night - to ensure flight safety. These are multi-million dollar vehicles and buildings that can’t get a common datalink picture on a screen. Lots of root causes for lots of problems with equipment, certification, training, manning, etc. Every child playing iPad games has more computing and display power than a lot of aircraft that are allowed in Class B.

Having little to no SA on the specifics here, I can say based on my experiences in the military and thus far in the civilian world, ATC is far too comfortable giving visual approaches to passenger aircraft. IMO, they should basically only be given upon request. I think it has become the easy button for them to place responsibility on pilots.

https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/4050331/identity-months-dead-at-dod/

She was not recovered according to the timeline I have read. The other two were recovered and confirmed dead. The last crew member was listed as DUSTWUN until the release a short while ago. Not every event that happens in this shitty world is a globalist conspiracy. Some are. Most aren't.

The procedures in that area are stupid.

Fuck you…that’s their daughter. Have some decency.

Tell us you’re old ….. (I got the reference, fuck I’m old too)

Was it a case of Quigley Down Under?

It's already a huge stretch to call anything related to J6 treason. No one was working for a foreign entity against our government, and no one was trying to replace one form of government with another. In fact the people involved (wrongly) believed they were defending our system and the integrity of our elections. The intent is a vital distinction. That doesn't mean it was rational or acceptable. It was a riot, and riots are almost always bad. This one certainly was. But that's not treason.

Warrants classify into 4 specific career tracks, one of them being Instructor/Evaluator. IP is not an upgrade in the Army, it is a specific career progression. We have made RLO(O series) instructors on occasion, but it is usually tied to specific detail such as the exchange billet with the UK. It is normal, she would log PI even though she has a PIC rating, because she is being evaluated. Same is true of an IP evaluating the commander. The only time you get weird logging of a kind of dual PC condition is an IP conducting a check ride from the control station and a Stands pilot (IP upgrade) conducting a simultaneous evaluation from the bench or jump seat in a 60/47. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

I knew a few pilots who did WH things. They were solid pilots. I agree with this.

we all know these types. shinny pennies. pushed to exec or staff work. typically weaker flying skills (or don't like flying) but excel as paper pushers. a story as old as time. was this the case here? i don't know. but the low hours is something illuminating. and the high profile WH gig. is it causal to the accident? no idea and won't cast judgement. my point is maybe we should bring back the primary focus of pilots to being a pilot. and reward them as such. instead you're rewarded for being the best exec and no one gives a shit about your flying skills.

After all that, look who they elected as chair

This I’ll bet 99% of the time my visual will be mysteriously exactly a dog leg vector to a fix about 2-3 miles prior to the FAF CDTI clearances are also annoying, me to ATC when they issue one:

That Lear Jet looked like a missile.

Depending on the carrier/culture, p121 ops range from heavily discouraged to outright phobic responses to an actual visual approach. Dogleg vector to an instrument based final is the norm. I would argue that we aren’t really flying a visual, just accepting a handoff of visual responsibility from RAPCON. At my previous carrier, the suggestion of a visual was a good way to get everyone’s blood pressure to spike: the monkeys and the banana response. Better luck at my current outfit (legacy) typically, but still some that couldn’t fathom actual unaided VFR flying. I’m a weird cat that still gets a satisfying dopamine hit from clicking off the FD and rolling out on a stable final just like Earnie Gann intended. But it begins with reading the room.

I think I posted one of their renders in the concept airplane thread but their website has more on their idea of a common core and multiple variants for different training purposes + an unmanned ISTAR / AR platform… https://aeralis.com/ Zero point zero chance of being adopted and as it’s just a digital aircraft att I’d be skeptical of putting resources to it until at least one variant had been produced and flown. However new tech doesn’t happen without some bets being taken…

Ya Vol!

Almost always a faster way to get on the ground. Great points above still want to know if they were wearing NVGs (NTSB mentioned they are working to confirm). While they are a great tool as we all know they also restrict peripheral vision making it easier to falsely ID the called out traffic. Did anyone see the NTSB update last night, the lead investigator was almost in tears. He noted many recommendations from past accidents that are still in limbo (I know there are many reasons they have not been incorporated like money, staffing, and impact on operations). He also talked about altitude discrepancies - From the FDR they know the CRJ was at 325' plus or minus 25'. The tower radar showed the Blackhawk at 200'. Obviously the helo was at the same altitude as the AA flight, what caused the discrepancy? I don't know how the tower radar derives altitude? Raw data, does ADSB feed into it?

I trust the FBI about as much as the CCP at this point. But, I suppose it depends on the official reason they were fired (not just whatever single quote was printed in a news article). Could be bullshit/lawsuit city, but may not be. Also, we’re they truly fired, or just reassigned to BFE Field Office, ND and quit?

G-men that were doing their jobs as directed by their bosses get fired. I smell a fat lawsuit. https://www.mediaite.com/news/fbi-agents-involved-in-trump-cases-escorted-out-of-offices-in-friday-night-purge/ "Trump denied Friday afternoon during an Oval Office press conference that he ordered the firings." I call bullshit.

That's a crazy video. First, who puts a security camera in their bedroom facing their bed? That's some kinky stuff right there. Second, does show how important it is to train regularly with your firearm and think through likely scenarios. Third, think this just convinced me to switch my bedroom defense gun to an AR. Conveniently, we're about to remodel which will remove about 99% of the threat of missed bullets going into kids bedrooms, so no reason not to go with an AR.

Yeah, of course we're talking theoretically here.

I haven’t been shooting since that fishing accident dumped all my guns.

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Every time I get the idea in my head that armed assholes breaking into my house is pretty much a fantasy the internet shows me a current incident reminding me the chance not zero. Kid got really lucky..

You can breathe easier now. She has been identified. All is safe.

@08Dawg What’s too bad is that’s exactly what would happen, I don’t blame her family. Nobody will talk about how there was a male pilot also there with twice the hours. The only way DEI could possibly be linked is if the tower was understaffed at the time and it was found the additional personnel who *should* have been there would have likely jumped in with directive comm to avert disaster. But even then, that hypothetical finding will never be definitive, but just an educated assumption. FAA staffing may be a CF (in addition to helo pilot error), but ultimately I think the RC will be insufficient procedures for the amount of traffic congestion in the DCA area. And I say all this as someone who vehemently believes DEI is a cancer on the world and needs to die. Meritocracy and highest qualified/capabilities is how every industry and gov agency should work.

Why are they withholding the Blackhawk pilot’s name?

That's horrific. I hope the initial impact was violent enough that no one was conscious afterward.

Ummm not really. For FEDERAL crimes perhaps, but not state crimes, which is why the liberal NY establishment contrived a case stacking crimes, after the statue of limitation had expired, for a crime that no one had ever been charged with, in order to weaponize the system against Trump and prevent a self-pardon if re-elected. For the record, I am NOT in favor of self-pardons. However, I am diametrically opposed to EITHER side weaponizing the system to take out a political opponent. If you think the NY case was anything than that, then I have a direct to the Raptor assignment waiting for you after you UAS tour...

Still have several years to go and then the Raptor can join the club that started in 2001! Incredible they still don’t have a HMCS. It’s a great example of how pathetic our requirements and acquisitions process is.

I was hoping it was Alice In Chains before the preview populated. My absolute favorite.

This is back when MTV Unplugged was a big thing. This one always struck me. If you have a nice set of headphones or fancy speakers with a nice soundstage, the full length intro on streaming services is worth it over the youtube. The applause and microphone placement really makes it feel like you're on stage with the band.

Unfortunately for you a jury of his peers found him guilty of seditious-conspiracy. Not msm nor a democratic agenda, nor a political hit squad, or whatever excuse you care to choose. It was a jury of his peers as laid out as one of the fundamental tenants of this country that decided he was in fact guilty. And that is a fact.

January 6th was a block party that got out of control. If you want to see an *actual* insurrection, you can look at the summer of 2020 when numerous democratic governments all but sanctioned mob violence in the name of social justice.

Gay.