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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]That's a fast track for ROTC/Guard duty to make Capt at 4 yrs. And with relatively few hours. [/quote]

She was active duty. I made captain at 3.5 yrs.  4 yrs is about average for active duty unless things have changed [/quote]

At your level of competence at that point, would you have been put in charge of something comparable?[/quote]

I wasn’t in aviation, but I did work closely with pilots.  Of the missions expected of Black Hawk pilots, this should have been a very easy flight. I don’t know about the “check in” thing or if she was purposely given a challenging/dangerous script she had to follow to see if she could recover or something.  But if the training was simply to fly the night route safely- it should have been something very routine[/quote]

Agree, follow east bank of river at the required max altitude at each juncture. See them doing that all the time, and at 150’ during the day 2 at a time formation. [/quote]

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