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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This has brought to light some huge failures in pilot training.  I think it’s fair to consider is this is related to intentionally filling more women into these roles that were previously closed.  Did that alter training standards? Or is it something else that has caused this massive training failure? Is it that they were trained properly but the culture has changed pilots go off script and don’t follow standards because they feel over confident- and that’s become acceptable?

But the pilots of Vietnam could fly their bullet ridden low tech helicopters through gun fire, landing with ease between close trees,
where staying on the ground for seconds longer than absolutely necessary means low survival.  I think it’s care training standards have changed as well as acceptable practices when out of flight school [/quote]

Lol this is a glorified taxi service route. Are you suggesting that the military should only allow its very best seasoned fighter pilots to fly as taxis? Seems like a misuse of resources, no? [/quote]

I’m saying this route should have been zero problems for properly trained pilots [/quote]

Again I’ll ask what you think of the repeated near misses at this airport? Is that an acceptable risk to put commercially flying civilians under for taxi services?

Curious what your position is here.

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The “near misses,” you aren’t even citing, where a commercial pilot bowed out of the landing queue bc a helicopter was in the vicinity or closing in is not what happened here. That’s due to lack of trust of the helo pilots there.

Here a plane was over almost over the river, 400m from the runway, at 400ft alt, and had to evasively try to pull up at the last second. Which didn’t work.

Meanwhile no one of authority has disclosed why the BH helicopter route and altitude was so off. [/quote]

I don’t need to do your research for you, but Tim Caine spoke about this issue awhile ago, and someone above posted a link to near miss stats for that airport.

And I don’t think you know much about aviation if you think that the helo being 100 or even 250 feet off is ‘so off’. If you ever have seen flight tracking on an app, as example, you will occasionally see flight paths passing over each other but they are *thousands* of feet apart.

Why was our govt comfortable with this close of a path way next to commercial flights? Crazy

I’m seeing chatter on the VIP issue around fwiw [/quote]

3rd hand “info” suits you well. [/quote]

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