Two Lessons From The DCA Crash

[Ragsf15e]

10 hours ago, N201MKTurbo said:

I have a friend Lori who was in my old speed skating club. She was a serious competitor. 
 

After 9/11 she was mad and joined the Army. She was almost 30 years old at the time. She trained like crazy before going to basic training. She was crazy buff right before she left. We emailed a bit while she was training. She said she finished all the running and hiking ahead of all the guys. If anybody would have been carrying anybody else’s stuff, it would be her.

Last I heard she had been to Afghanistan 5 times.  She told me the story of her first deployment. They didn’t have separate tents or facilities and her group was coed. They did everything together sleep, eat dress and use the latrine all coed. She said there were no issues. If someone would have tried something with her, she would have kicked their ass. About a month later some officer came by and insisted they have separate tents and facilities. She said there were more problems being separate.

She also told me the story about her rifle. She said about every other month some officer would say either all the women must carry a rifle or cannot carry a rifle. She said whenever she got into a HUMVEE or a helicopter, somebody would hand her a rifle. 
 

She ended up running the post office for the Army in Afghanistan. She told me once that she knew more about where everybody was deployed than the generals did. 
 

She told me once she was really pissed because the bad guys were shelling her base and blew up the new Pizza Hut.

That Pizza Hut was one of the best sources of morale in Afghanistan!  That and the Thai restaurant in Kabul on the Nato base.  Surprisingly good!

[AIREMATT]

On 2/3/2025 at 1:50 PM, Pinecone said:

As I understand it, airline ops require response to an RA.

As I understand it yes, it will not generate an RA below 1000 feet AGL.

The TCAS system will still generate a TA below 1,000’. It won’t give you climb or descent commands (Resolution Advisory) but will call out “Traffic” to warn you of close proximity traffic that would cause a possible RA if you were above 1,000’.

[Sue Bon]

On 2/3/2025 at 7:16 PM, Schllc said:

DEI has been around a long time…

Well at least we can all sleep better knowing that this has been changed back 

https://www.avweb.com/aviation-news/notams-back-to-notice-to-airmen/

[Hank]

3 hours ago, Sue Bon said:

Well at least we can all sleep better knowing that this has been changed back 

https://www.avweb.com/aviation-news/notams-back-to-notice-to-airmen/

If only the system could be fixed to distribute relevant NOTAMs . . .

[A64Pilot]

Don’t get me started about the Military, back in Clinton’s day.

Turbine inlet Temperature abbreviated as (TIT) was offensive so it was changed to Inlet Turbine Temperature (ITT)

Cockpit was offensive so it was changed to Crew Compartment. Any reference to manpower, or men as in addressing troops etc was also offensive and manuals again were changed

We laugh about that, but 30 years ago all manuals were printed so each change cost millions in printing and distribution not considering the massive number of man, excuse me person hours spent posting changes to every Aviation manual in the Army, and later every manual of which I’m sure there are thousands at least.

There were many other changes too of course like when you were at a Dr appt they used to call you by your last 4 of your SS, that was stopped and Civilian Govt employees called us SM’s for service members, that too was considered offensive and God knows how many other things.

Then in the last couple of years of course any Military post named for Southern Generals which as most are down South was most of them, at least the big ones anyway had to have its name changed, each change costing millions is printing, signs etc. but that was just the beginning by the time it was done thousands of building names, landmarks like hills, roads etc had to of course be changed, because the names were racist?

[flyboy0681]

1 hour ago, A64Pilot said:

Don’t get me started about the Military, back in Clinton’s day.

Turbine inlet Temperature abbreviated as (TIT) was offensive so it was changed to Inlet Turbine Temperature (ITT)

Cockpit was offensive so it was changed to Crew Compartment. Any reference to manpower, or men as in addressing troops etc was also offensive and manuals again were changed

We laugh about that, but 30 years ago all manuals were printed so each change cost millions in printing and distribution not considering the massive number of man, excuse me person hours spent posting changes to every Aviation manual in the Army, and later every manual of which I’m sure there are thousands at least.

There were many other changes too of course like when you were at a Dr appt they used to call you by your last 4 of your SS, that was stopped and Civilian Govt employees called us SM’s for service members, that too was considered offensive and God knows how many other things.

Then in the last couple of years of course any Military post named for Southern Generals which as most are down South was most of them, at least the big ones anyway had to have its name changed, each change costing millions is printing, signs etc. but that was just the beginning by the time it was done thousands of building names, landmarks like hills, roads etc had to of course be changed, because the names were racist?

The good news is that as of two days ago, Notice to "Airmen" has been reinstated. Gone is the term "Air Missions".

[Mooney in Oz]

15 hours ago, A64Pilot said:

Don’t get me started about the Military, back in Clinton’s day.

Turbine inlet Temperature abbreviated as (TIT) was offensive so it was changed to Inlet Turbine Temperature (ITT)

Cockpit was offensive so it was changed to Crew Compartment. Any reference to manpower, or men as in addressing troops etc was also offensive and manuals again were changed

We laugh about that, but 30 years ago all manuals were printed so each change cost millions in printing and distribution not considering the massive number of man, excuse me person hours spent posting changes to every Aviation manual in the Army, and later every manual of which I’m sure there are thousands at least.

There were many other changes too of course like when you were at a Dr appt they used to call you by your last 4 of your SS, that was stopped and Civilian Govt employees called us SM’s for service members, that too was considered offensive and God knows how many other things.

Then in the last couple of years of course any Military post named for Southern Generals which as most are down South was most of them, at least the big ones anyway had to have its name changed, each change costing millions is printing, signs etc. but that was just the beginning by the time it was done thousands of building names, landmarks like hills, roads etc had to of course be changed, because the names were racist?

The Department of Stupidity and Idiocy runs our lives over here as well.

[Coachella Bravo]

And we wonder where the $$$ goes and why the debt is so very high.

Death by a million paper cuts.  Perhaps we're on the correct path finally.

 

 

 

[Pinecone]

One other point is.  DCA was supposed be closed down in the late 60s - early 70s.   IAD was supposed to replace it.  But no one wanted to go all the way out in the country to go to IAD.

But the Congress critters want DCA as it is short ride from the Hill to get out of town on Friday afternoon.  Be at DCA on Friday afternoon and you will see more Senators and Congressman that for the State of the Union address.

 

[aviatoreb]

On 2/13/2025 at 12:50 AM, Mooney in Oz said:

The Department of Stupidity and Idiocy runs our lives over here as well.

The DSI.

[EricJ]

The NTSB just had a press conference and offered a few tidbits:

The Blackhawk crew may have been wearing NVGs.

The Blackhawk was equipped with ADS-B-out.    They don't know why it wasn't transmitting.

The Blackhawk recorded a radio altitude of 278 ft at the time of collision.   They believe that data is good data.

They don't know what altitude the crew saw on their displays.   Some of the recorded information is known to be bad, so part of the ongoing work is to determine what altitude the crew saw on their displays.

The CRJ went to full up elevator before the crash and was at a nine degree pitch up.

The Blackhawk was essentially straight and level at the time of collision.