I was taught that as a handy way to know if you were on a safe tack when sailing and approaching another vessel -- especially useful at night when the seeing is not great. If the bearing is constant, the range is decreasing (or you can't tell), turn a few degrees to be on the safe side, and then keep an eye on it! Conversely, if the bearing is changing, you're good -- but keep an eye on it!
My siblings and I were discussing the crash in a group text and one brother was explaining he had seen a Youtube video with a common sense explanation fairly early on. I said lemme guess, from Mick West? He was like how the hell did you know that? I said I keep telling you guys to join Metabunk, but you just won't listen to your little brother...LolThe experts might have read it on Metabunk.
I was taught the same thing by my first flight instructor. She said if its in the air and not (apparently) moving its a red flag. Always assume its decreasing range (usually correct given the speed of aircraft). If its on your right, turn a little to the right immediately and vice versa on the left. This would tend to make you pass behind the other aircraft. Don't wait! Do it now! You can very quickly determine if the constant bearing craft is decreasing range and then take appropriate action. She also cautioned that if the other pilot did the same thing at the same time you could end up in a converging track and you had to be ready to take more aggressive action.
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IS there such a limit? That seems insanely low, but I don't know if there are special rules for helicopters near airports...
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and maybe [partly] why Trump is so bent out of shape so quickly.
Maybe not, but MW's analysis is the earliest that I know of. Well done.The experts might have read it on Metabunk.
I expect several people to independently noticed the same things. It was perhaps easier to see with Sitrec.
Hegseth had already said there was an altitude issue involved. Just prior (or after? I don't recall exactly) Trump saying it was "common sense" that DEI was involved.
To reasonable people, this is evidence that what you do, and the rest of us here do, is useful and accurate.
These kinds of interactions appear to be very common in that area so there would have been no reason to tell the helicopter to stop, especially since it appeared that the ATC believed the helicopter had the appropriate jet in sight.
it does look like the helicopter went from 2 to 300 feet right before the warning alarms went off. i'm not sure that is common, but maybe it is.
What is common is the combined traffic between the helicopters and the commercial air traffic. Everything I have heard and read said that the helicopter was flying above its designated flight ceiling for that part of its route. Perhaps the ATC gave too much deference to the helo pilot after they acknowledged 'sight' of the CRJ and were directed to fly behind it.
The Mode-S reporting seems to be in multiples of 100 feet. So it might be going from 295 to 300 feet. It might also be inaccurate.
yea but 295 is too high. that was my point, the atc guy maybe wouldnt know that meant 295 but once it hit 3 he maybe should have said "check your altitude" or something. whether the readings were wrong or not (lets hope they arent too wrong, i assume altitude is kinda important when flying planes)
maybe they were, the NTSB guy on saturday got all emotional saying there were a bunch of recommendations just sitting in some file cabinet.
I've been wondering when someone was going to question the idea of everything would have been OK had the helo been flying at 200 ft UNDER a commercial airliner on final approach and seconds before touch down.
This is what I was wondering. I would think 100' of vertical separation on approach is not SOP?
the atc did tell them to go BEHIND the jet, not under
wasnt it the secret service? but yea and the kansas senator said the first night of the crash that flight was only a year old and he pushed it through.
it better.
Article: For example, the unit cost of the Army's UH-60L Black Hawk is $5.9 million
Reagan is the busiest airport in the region, more so than Dulles or BWI.
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