So it was potentially a lasse fare attitude in the military that led to a horrific tragedy than technical or staff level issues in the FAA.
Jees, I wonder who introduced that into what should be the most disciplined branch of government, maybe the ones responsible for lowering entry requirements...
Aerial tragedies are normally a bunch of small holes in the "frame" that makes airports work that just happen to align correctly for the tragedy to finally slip through.
It was both the lackadasial attitude of that crew, AND the grossly undermanned and overworked ATC (thanks to Obama and Biden fucking it up with their DEI faggotry and some black diversity group) that pretty much asked for something like this to happen.
What's worse for the military is this is probably systemic, at least in their helicopter division - that ain't a good look when we're planning on dropping shit on Mexico's cartels.
It was obvious because with the technology and capabilities of a blackhawk you couldn't hit one with a jumbojet on purpose.
Even if air traffic controllers told them to be at the same height and collision course it never would have happened without the blackhawk pilots fucking up big time.
And I feel bad when eyeballing hobby model dimensions… these guys can eyeball helicopter instruments (Until they can’t, and 60 something people die because of it)!
I don't know what level of precision the altimeters are supposed to have, but it's obviously insane to do night flying in an 0-200 foot corridor on altimeters you think are only accurate to +/- 200 feet. Even though the altimeters were less inaccurate than they thought they were, what they thought they knew was a massive (false) red flag.
I don't know what level of precision the altimeters are supposed to have
Accuracy decreases with range, but for comparison, a civilian Honeywell or Collins model will typically be accurate to about 2' at 500', increasing from 3% to 5% error as you approach 2500'.
So it was potentially a lasse fare attitude in the military that led to a horrific tragedy than technical or staff level issues in the FAA.
Jees, I wonder who introduced that into what should be the most disciplined branch of government, maybe the ones responsible for lowering entry requirements...
Sure, just a bunch of weird coincidences lol. Possible I guess.
Aerial tragedies are normally a bunch of small holes in the "frame" that makes airports work that just happen to align correctly for the tragedy to finally slip through.
It was both the lackadasial attitude of that crew, AND the grossly undermanned and overworked ATC (thanks to Obama and Biden fucking it up with their DEI faggotry and some black diversity group) that pretty much asked for something like this to happen.
What's worse for the military is this is probably systemic, at least in their helicopter division - that ain't a good look when we're planning on dropping shit on Mexico's cartels.
This was pretty obvious from the start, considering the collision happened at 400ft, with the helicopter supposed to be at 200.
Like most investigations, the responsible party is immediately obvious, the details take a little longer.
It was obvious because with the technology and capabilities of a blackhawk you couldn't hit one with a jumbojet on purpose.
Even if air traffic controllers told them to be at the same height and collision course it never would have happened without the blackhawk pilots fucking up big time.
And I feel bad when eyeballing hobby model dimensions… these guys can eyeball helicopter instruments (Until they can’t, and 60 something people die because of it)!
The other problem is when you fly a copter forward, you actually fly at a 10 degree angle DOWN - that obstructs the upper part of the windshield.
On top of that if you're wearing night vision goggles, more of your periphery is cut off as well.
So many factors that added to this disaster.
I see. So Climate Change did this.
I don't know what level of precision the altimeters are supposed to have, but it's obviously insane to do night flying in an 0-200 foot corridor on altimeters you think are only accurate to +/- 200 feet. Even though the altimeters were less inaccurate than they thought they were, what they thought they knew was a massive (false) red flag.
Accuracy decreases with range, but for comparison, a civilian Honeywell or Collins model will typically be accurate to about 2' at 500', increasing from 3% to 5% error as you approach 2500'.