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Idiotic nonsense. Another occurrence that has absolutely nothing to do with the gov, the administration or the FAA.

What Clinton said is not true, stupid, and is either an intentional lie or she has achieved Biden mental performance levels. How anyone can ever listen to her about anything is beyond me.

This forum is getting hopelessly goofy. This has nothing to do with anything the gov is involved in, anymore than a bumper bump in a grocery store parking lot has. It was in an area where deicing was underway. "The aircraft were in an area that is not under air traffic control," the FAA noted." Don't people have anything better to do?

He makes one mistake in this video. He goes off on a bit of a tangent discussing altimeter settings and whether or not the helo crew had the correct one. When you are flying low level, you don't use your pressure altimeter, you use your radar altimeter, as this route is based on.

Traffic, medivac, construction, occasionally police etc., helos operate all the time in these areas, but they are altitude restricted or fly canned routes. They are told to avoid certain areas, like the approach or departure paths from runways in use. This helo route is in a very bad location if DCA is operating circling approaches to 33 with the little guys. Very similar at LaGuardia within the NY metro area.

It would also be very difficult to discern the navigation lights, which are low power red a green depending on the side of the airplane, when the landing lights are on, which they are below 10,000' and when the landing gear are lowered, which it was, the taxi light is on. These are way brighter than the nav lights. On another point suggested, military and civilian operations are constantly conducted in the same airspace, and use the same air traffic control and rules. The frequency thing is because many military airplanes use UHF, while civilians use VHF. When a controller transmits, he/she goes out on both, but the military would not hear a civilian response made on VHF, nor the civilian hear the military on UHF. This does not include areas where the military does its mission training, ie bombing or fighting etc., those are in MOAS, military operating areas, restricted areas or warning areas where civil traffic is not permitted when the areas are "hot", with few exceptions. The issue is that whomever screwed up, and I think the helo did, but it the ATC responsibility to control that airspace, and flying an approach to runway 1 then given a circle to land to 33 with a helo operating in that area is a very bad situation that should not have occurred.

He certainly abandoned them. See Afghanistan escape.

Having made the accusation, perhaps you can find evidence that I ever said this. Citing the idiocy of the whipsaw failed Biden group policy is not it. We will end drilling. When prices get too high we will release some of the petroleum reserve. Not for its intended strategic purpose, but because polls indicate that the people are irritated. Then we will beg the Saudis to not cut OPEC production When they refuse we will ask them to not do so until after the mid terms. We will back channel negotiate with the sleazy Venezuelans, "cause the polls are really bad on this. Not sure he even knew, as evidenced by his being unaware of his LNG policy ignorance.

The point is that in both of the cases I mentioned, during the accident investigation, it was revealed that their training records indicated substandard performance to a level that historically would have disqualified them. Those training records are not passed along. In Hultgren's case, she had trouble in the F-14 training squadron prior to being assigned a fleet squadron, and since it's at the same base, most people knew and in had been discussed. In the second situation, his record in the training command was not known to anyone in our squadron. We were on our second one week long workup prior to our seven month cruise. He had trouble during day flights on the first workup and was not ever scheduled for a night flight from Kitty Hawk. On this second workup, the plan was to get him two day sorties. It those were OK, he was to get a night flight the following evening. If they didn't, he was going to be removed from the squadron. I had never seen that applied to anyone else. He died when he had an approach turn stall during his second day flight. The airplane departed controlled flight at about 300' altitude and he ejected nearly inverted at about 250' and was killed when he hit the water. Again, in both situations the training performance to that point was significantly below what been disqualification.

Energy policy.

I'd be all over it. Should have been done years ago. Still DEI in the existing FAA is a serious issue. I used to play in an adult basketball league in suburban Chicago with a number of controllers, and they never stopped complaining about it.

Not sure your point here. I am old enough to have flown fighters from carriers, with over 300 carrier landings, graduated from Top Gun as an adversary instructor, fought against every US fighter and many foreign ones, did 30+ years as an airline pilot, serving as an international check captain on the 757/767 and doing my last five on the 777. Does this somehow make me ineligible to have a view?

What does that have to do with anything?

Ya. So? Not sure what point you're are trying to make here, and I am familiar with both situations. Completely unrelated. She caused the compressor stall, then selected burner on the other engine, further exacerbating the roll problem. Thank goodness the RIO got out in time.

She caused the compressor stall by jamming rudder in while trying to correct for a poor alignment to the carrier's final bearing. She had done this before, was known for it, and should have been removed from this situation, and would have been if not for her gender. Snort left a control lock in place. It would have taken you ten seconds to find that, so I'm suspicious you have another motive. You certainly didn't need me to answer that.

Not sure what this means. No surprise.

Do tell.

The point is that it didn't happen to a white male. It happened to a female who had demonstrated the same problem before, and there is a record of it. She was in that position because she was a female and the Navy was intent on getting her through to be the first service to do so. This desire cost her her life, and a 50 million dollar airplane.

I have no idea what this post means, or is intended to mean.\

It is impossible to answer that question. There is no accident that is directly related to DEI practices, because controllers don't control aircraft. I have pointed out two situations that resulted in death from this practice. One was the F-14 crash killing Karen Hultgreen, who was put in that position, incompetent as she was, because she was a woman. The other was not named but I am extremely familiar with because I flew as his lead the sortie his death, and he was a black man who should have never been in that position, based on his training performance. By the way, a truly great guy, just not capable. Back to the subject, the FAA hiring and promotion practices have grossly impacted the industry, but killing people isn't something in their purview. Ultimately, they don't have the stick.

I'll take this one. The standard should never be whether the policy causes a plane crash. Pilots can mitigate controller errors, as they have controls and windows, and are ultimately responsible for manipulating an airplane of helo. Controllers are advisory, as are traffic signals in the auto world. The point is that the FAA is an organization that grossly reduces efficiency, and some of that is because of the hiring and promotion policy intact. Everybody knows it. The lack of killing people is not the standard.

Very good. I opine that although politically aimed people will disagree with this, those of us that are familiar with the system, including the people directly hired into it, will totally agree. The FAA has become a social experiment. Still functional, but undeniably driven, in recruitment and promotion, by DEI and quotas.

I can't believe this guy showed up again. Background. I think Trump's comments were stupid and unnecessary, and certainly not germane to this accident. But.........I am well aware of this Les Abend guy. He wrote for years for "Flying Magazine," and did so as an airline pilot writing for small airplane people as a civilian background guy who simply lived the title. Most airline guys don't. He is one of those guys that probably has "Captain" prior to his name on his checks. Just a goof. I know all about him. He was junior to me at the same airline and same base, same airplane, the 777. CNN used him routinely as an "expert" after Malaysia 370 was lost. He would be on there nightly, offering his views. It was embarrassing to us. He was a civilian background guy who stated nonsense about his views on military night formation flying, which were preposterous. He stated things about the ACARS system, which is a data link reporting system that would have easily solved this if Malaysia had paid for it. The problem was that he was completely wrong, to the point that on our union website, the check captain that certified me as a 777 captain exposed him as an idiot and told him to stop, or at least shut up. Loves the camera. Probably wants his first name changed to "captain." Trump says really stupid stuff, but this guy is a total goof. Probably one of those guys that wore his uniform on a trip to the local convenience store. I would take a bet that on his gravestone he is going to have "Captain" inscribed before his name. Makes the rest of us cringe.

You are killing it today. Two years ago, and last year as well, flight schedules had to be curtailed in the NY area because the FAA could not properly staff to support it. Yet, tons of money spent on idiotic renaming of programs to eliminate gender pronouns. The FAA's NOTAM system completely broke down, resulting in a nationwide shutdown under this clown's watch, with no consequences, yet he bragged on and on about fining Southwest for a computer issue that shut them down for a few hours. The man is a disgraceful failure; a smug punk despised by the people he was in charge of, and his bizarre claim yesterday about his performance is only able to be believed by idiots who know noting about his.

Just incredibly stupid.