AVIATION PING!..............
Broken altimeter — and a pilot with vertigo.
DEI all over the place.
Any pilot who can't tell that the altimeter is defective when it reads 100ft at 274 is also at fault. She should have taken remedial action by making sure to fly well below that ceiling.
Did you hear the part were the FAA guy trys to explain why none of the controllers were tested for drugs or alcohol? He basically said “ we have to review the tapes first to see who needs to be tested”. Would’nt that be a bit too late?
The H-60 had radar altimeters to supplement the barometric.
RadAlt is what I would have used.
Yes, I have 3+ decades of flying H-60’s....multiple versions.
Even if both were at their assigned altitude this is still a bad idea in the extreme. It gives little room for error and the wake turbulence from a large jet could be extreme on a smaller aircraft.
“Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) ignoring safety concerns”
Its not the lives of those in the FAA, nor their money, nor their future livelihood at stake. Honestly, why do those working at the FAA care about things like “safety” of someone else and someone else’s airline? Actually, there’s strong evidence the gov’t likes death to lower the population.
That is the problem with all these alphabet soup federal regulatory agencies. They love the power and control over others and the income for themselves, but they have no personal interest in the thing they are regulating. Just go to work, put in your time, collect your paycheck, and think of ways to increase your paycheck - just like everybody else. The purported “do-good” reason for the bureaucracy is quickly lost.
Better is private industry and private enterprise taking care of their own. The free market in the voluntary cooperation between buyers and sellers will do a good job of weeding out the low quality and careless providers - they will go out of business because buyers in their own self-interest will buy elsewhere.
A large part of the FAA and the other alphabet soup federal agencies is a huge and profound waste of taxpayers’ money.
But she supported gay rights. Ain’t Affirmative Action wonderful.
This is the same FAA that regularly tests the TSA on their ability to spot luggage bombs — they fail >90% of the time. But, the FAA does nothing to fix the situation.
Um, why did they allow it to take off?
Sounds like an issue with PMEL ...
Why was it so important for this chick to practice her NVG flying across this aviation version of Frogger ?
If this Helo has 3 altimeters , why were they using the Fubar and not one of the other two ?
Does the Army have Blackhawk Simulators , this girl could crashed to her hearts content.
We have self-driving cars which know how to not hit things. Guess someday that technology will be in aircraft.
The self-driving cars don’t require any instrumentation in objects they need to avoid.
If the cockpit altimeter was off by 100 feet, then where did the flight data recorder get its altitude data from, and why wasn’t this source displayed in the cockpit?