***Posting blind:
Seasoned pilot gives opinion on Black Hawk:
https://youtu.be/X3PtOdR_VCc?si=WMoYxfzfstqN-yUy
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IMHO this is one of the most reasoned and well thought out analysis of the tragedy.
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kash posted a vid, I think we got something more going on.
I thought so too.
Spot on is his definition of the 500 hour inadequacy. Bizarre assignment for a Reagan landing with the infamous reputation for near misses.
Just heartbreaking.
You want to reach in there and just reverse that helo’s fateful course of actions.
If the helo uncertainties were real, and forcing errors, it’s so hard not to want that helo to get earlier permission to drop into hover, to regroup, possibly recover from its deadly course.
Just devastating to contemplate. RIP
PS: I’m wondering out loud about the American Eagle.. if it had no instrument detection of that helo? I think I don’t understand the use of instruments not being used at night. A pilot instinctively uses visual as well.