Why does military use helicopters around DMV?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Too many political VIPs see the helicopter ride as a perk of doing the job. The pilots need flight hours. The military likes to use their toy; more use means more justification for higher budgets.

Thus, you have a bunch of flights at all hours of the day because VIPs don't want to sit in a car ride to the Pentagon or Langley. But the airspace around DCA is the most congested in the country and the odds of a catastrophic accident go up the more aircraft you put in the air.

It's a self-fulfilling prophecy.

It was bipartisan legislation voted in by congress that put even more flights in the air at DCA, to the minority objection of local VA and MD government leaders.

The military flights are the problem, though, not the commercial ones.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Too many political VIPs see the helicopter ride as a perk of doing the job. The pilots need flight hours. The military likes to use their toy; more use means more justification for higher budgets.

Thus, you have a bunch of flights at all hours of the day because VIPs don't want to sit in a car ride to the Pentagon or Langley. But the airspace around DCA is the most congested in the country and the odds of a catastrophic accident go up the more aircraft you put in the air.

It's a self-fulfilling prophecy.

It was bipartisan legislation voted in by congress that put even more flights in the air at DCA, to the minority objection of local VA and MD government leaders.

The military flights are the problem, though, not the commercial ones.

It's both if the air is too congested, regardless, and safety concerns for the overly congested airway were explicitly what was voiced by local leadership in opposition to adding more flights. You have to take into account all of it. There were already a few near misses at DCA since that legislation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OMG what is wrong with you people.

This was an accident caused by Trump and his idiot sycophants who removed the guardrails.

Neither pilot wanted this to happen. It was an accident tragic and most likely could have been prevented or maybe not.

However our military needs to train.

You can not have close in airports and not have this happen.

How do you know it is by removing guardrails? Was the BH aircraft coming out of Langley? Weren't there reports of coaches from some country on the AA plane? could it be something else? Will taxpayers know?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OMG what is wrong with you people.

This was an accident caused by Trump and his idiot sycophants who removed the guardrails.

Neither pilot wanted this to happen. It was an accident tragic and most likely could have been prevented or maybe not.

However our military needs to train.

You can not have close in airports and not have this happen.

How do you know it is by removing guardrails? Was the BH aircraft coming out of Langley? Weren't there reports of coaches from some country on the AA plane? could it be something else? Will taxpayers know?

The coaches were Russian.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OMG what is wrong with you people.

This was an accident caused by Trump and his idiot sycophants who removed the guardrails.

Neither pilot wanted this to happen. It was an accident tragic and most likely could have been prevented or maybe not.

However our military needs to train.

You can not have close in airports and not have this happen.

How do you know it is by removing guardrails? Was the BH aircraft coming out of Langley? Weren't there reports of coaches from some country on the AA plane? could it be something else? Will taxpayers know?

Yes the helicopter came from Langley

[Anonymous]

Why doesn’t Bowser ban these flights?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why doesn’t Bowser ban these flights?

Why would you think the DC mayor has jurisdiction over a Virginia airport and virginia military bases?

[Anonymous]

Boy this thread definitely is not the best of DCUM.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OMG what is wrong with you people.

This was an accident caused by Trump and his idiot sycophants who removed the guardrails.

Neither pilot wanted this to happen. It was an accident tragic and most likely could have been prevented or maybe not.

However our military needs to train.

You can not have close in airports and not have this happen.

What are you on about?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OMG what is wrong with you people.

This was an accident caused by Trump and his idiot sycophants who removed the guardrails.

Neither pilot wanted this to happen. It was an accident tragic and most likely could have been prevented or maybe not.

However our military needs to train.

You can not have close in airports and not have this happen.

Lies.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There are military bases in the area

Sure but that doesn’t mean they need to be constantly flying into congested air space and over dense residential areas.

Its excessive. 24/7. And has gone on for decades without anyone batting an eye.

[Anonymous]

Miilitary probably isn't training over DC that much. Its the big shots using them to get around and sometimes they transport people between military hospitals and facilities in a true emergency.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OMG what is wrong with you people.

This was an accident caused by Trump and his idiot sycophants who removed the guardrails.

Neither pilot wanted this to happen. It was an accident tragic and most likely could have been prevented or maybe not.

However our military needs to train.

You can not have close in airports and not have this happen.

I hardly think an accident like this is inevitable -- we went decades without it happening, after all -- and I also don't understand what guardrails you think Trump removed in the 10 days since he took office that caused this crash.

I don't like anything he's doing, but blaming him for the accident seems almost as incorrect as his attempt to blame diversity programs.

[Anonymous]

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:But the airspace around DCA is the most congested in the country and the odds of a catastrophic accident go up the more aircraft you put in the air.

NYC (NY TRACON) is busier. DC is more complex if flying into DCA due to the river visual approach.