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Dong first would also be acceptable.

I agree with your post after this one I’m quoting. But, come on….. if they were “ at or below (not above)” the minimum clearance as the pax bird crosses over top ON GLIDEPATH was 75 feet. There’s no way anyone involved creating this procedure should have found that acceptable. I guarantee if the pilots flying into DCA knew that was a possibility when they accepted a clearance to sidestep to the other runway with a helo on that route, they would have declined every time.

Yeah, but humans don't work that way, and this line of reasoning got a bunch of innocent people killed, so new procedures are needed in my opinion. Being off altitude, misidentifying visual traffic at night in an ocean of lights, or drifting off flight path are well within the reasonable bounds of human error. Procedures at congested airports should not allow for basic human error to result in a crash. That's the whole point of having these procedures.

I gotta call BS. Maybe a good on-the-fly excuse to his leadership and a face saving option for media consumption. Sure. But if anyone in the business actually thinks that abortion of a maneuver and near destruction of beach side property and potential death of numerous innocent beach goers is a better alternative to taking a bird or two, they’re not playing with a full deck. He wasn’t even going that fast. The canopy is easily rated to take that and if an engine gets involved, well he’s got another. UFB.

@Swizzle This is a Dibs!

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.

Time for the wood chipper. Feet first preferably.

Hell awaits!

Easy fix: Don't clear someone for visual separation on route four if there's an aircraft on short final to 33. Complacency from both Tower and the Helo caused this.

Prior to the series 80, 1911s could and did go off from being dropped. And revolvers have an equally checkered past, including the Colt peacemaker. I would happily trust a Sig P320, fully conceding that there is some sort of unidentified mechanical malfunction occurring that causes them to occasionally misfire, over carrying a 1911 or revolver that our elders used to carry. Guns were not safer back then, we just didn't care about accidental deaths as much.

It'd take at least a 12 pack to dibs that.

https://www.pnj.com/story/news/crime/2025/07/30/molly-mersereau-gulf-breeze-high-school-teacher-arrested/85438300007/ Burner phone, teacher and student, Crime Stoppers call = drama First thing came to mind was South Park... ....but wait... @Biff_T?

Got my optics squared away on my MPX. Large Field of View Green Dot with a fold away 3 X Magnifier.

Soooooo....... Not an appendix carry fan I take it? 😄

Child molesters deserve the fate of a prison pin cushion.

Do you have our pic? My most exciting part of the week was the 3-engine Fifi landing on Saturday. Fortunately it is minor and she'll be back on the road this week.

@Biff_Talso goes by “Four-Eyed Edo Boy”…who knew.

OA-1K drops are to OKANG studs so they know what they’re getting! Not available to AD yet.

The pilot and his girlfriend both arrested for fucking their 11 year old daughter starting when she was only 6.