I click around on FlightRadar24 all the time to see what’s flying, both here and all over the country, and rarely saw military aircraft show up anywhere until a few days ago. |
Nope. Irrelevant. Go find another irrelevant side quest on DCUM. |
lol, keep telling yourself that PP. |
Agree. Maybe someone else should be piloting Black hawks, like only AF or navy pilots or rangers. Someone who can get more hours a year at the cockpit controls. |
Of course you haven’t read the em, they’re all your own posts harping on VIPs fake conspiracy stories. Keep it up PP, so cool! |
There are two separate problems. Yeah, there are close calls all the time. That’s a known problem. The other problem is that it’s possible this flight never should have happened. We have an administration that likes to treat themselves and their friends to buildings, servers, documents, and benefits that they are not entitled to. If someone who doesn’t qualify for VIP flights got one, that’s reckless. Oh, and it’s fraud, waste, and abuse. |
I see the occasional C-17, maybe some other transport stuff, that’s about it. It was interesting watching the Black Sea area earlier in the war there, lots to see. |
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I doubt there was a VIP on board ever. And I doubt that the helicopter took off from Langley.
On day 1, Hangover Hesgeth said it was a continuity of government training exercise. It took off from Belvoir or Bolling and went to Mt. Weather. In order to prevent having the route monitored, they turned the transponder off when they got (initially) to Langley. On the way back they turned the transponder on when they got to Langley so as to be seen by ATC when they re-entered airspace used by DCA. No VIP. Simple. Why would a training flight have a VIP onboard? Waste of time for the VIP and training missions carrying an actual VIP are no longer training missions. |
A Blackhawk pilot posted on another forum that many pilots are competing for flying hours. I just assumed a pilot could get flight hours whenever they wanted to fly. Didn’t know there was a pecking order. |
guess you don’t know anyone who lives or works in Old Town. See military helos weekly and more if you just sat there looking west. |
Maybe someone in the military or reserves can explain checkride requirements and scheduling to you again some day. Meanwhile don’t quit your remote blogger job. |
Wtf. That’d be all the time. Ever meet or know a pilot?!? |
The PP is talking about seeing them in the app, not the sky. |
Not exactly, and thank god people like you aren’t responsible for evaluating safety standards. You clearly aren’t a pilot nor have any sort of knowledge in this area. A number of things lined up wrong on these two flights, leading to a perfect storm and tragedy. Rules will change after this. I’d rather be on a commercial plane with US military trained pilots than any other pilots in the world. |