Posted on 09/03/2024 4:31:10 AM PDT by billorites
An Army investigation found an F-35 pilot with no previous experience in the type was at the controls of an Apache attack helicopter when it crashed at a base in Utah last February. According to KUTV, which got a copy of the report, the pilot was a colonel and he had 35 minutes of sim time in the Apache before he took off on an orientation flight with a Master Warrant Officer who was qualified in the type.
The investigation found that on the colonel's fourth attempt to hover and land the Apache at the army facility at West Jordan Airport, the colonel lost control. “In a moment of panic and due to his great unfamiliarity with the … helicopter flight controls,” an investigator wrote, “the [colonel] reverted to his fixed-wing … training and applied downward movement…. This motion … was not the proper input in a [rotor wing] aircraft.” The investigation also found fault with the Master Warrant Officer saying “overconfidence … led to inadequate aircraft flight control management and inadequate altitude selection with an unqualified person on the helicopter's flight controls.”
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This sounds like a National Guard event/management style.
Sounds like kamala Harris running the country after 30 minutes playing “Sim city” .
An MWO was in the other seat.
That’s a lot of aircraft to learn rotary in. Not exactly fly by wire F35. No computer to catch mistakes.
That isn’t going tpo buff out, Colonel...
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I worked for a couple of former colonels. My problem with them is they expected reality to conform to what they wanted it to be. When it didn’t, they got angry.
DEI causes DIE!
This colonel, destroying this aircraft stateside, saved the taxpayer the cost of shipping it overseas and kept it out of the hands of some globalist minion.
The U.S. Army can buy one back from the Taliban.
Sad trombone.
An apt analogy. Except the Obama-Biden-Harris intention in SimCity is to destroy the US. UK. And Israel.
No word on the colonel's name, sex, age, nor desired-person-title. USAF F-35 pilot thinking he/she/it could fly an army helicopter? Much less hover?
Sounds like DEI. It’s racist to expect a helicopter to be more difficult than a sim...particularly if math and science were involved.
Colonel or lieutenant colonel?
What us a master warrant officer?
CWO2
This maroon demolished a very expensive Apache helicopter>>>>
“Apache helicopters are some of the world’s best military choppers, so unsurprisingly they are also amongst the most expensive in the world, costing anywhere between $60 to $130 million.”
“inadequate altitude selection”
Is that an accident report way of saying “ crashed”?
“I don’t know how it works in the Army, but wouldn’t a Flight Release Officer have had to sign off on this flight?”
An instructor sign off in the logbook of the Colonel would need to be made however, that’s only for rotorcraft pilots when learning a different rotorcraft type. An F-35 is a fixed wing AC so that wouldn’t apply here. Besides that, you have a mix of Army-Air Force Aircraft and Officers.
It seems, initially anyway, that some heads are going to roll over this one. But, my limited knowledge is 40 years old and may be unreliable.
“I don’t know how it works in the Army, but wouldn’t a Flight Release Officer have had to sign off on this flight?”
An instructor sign off in the logbook of the Colonel would need to be made however, that’s only for rotorcraft pilots when learning a different rotorcraft type. An F-35 is a fixed wing AC so that wouldn’t apply here. Besides that, you have a mix of Army-Air Force Aircraft and Officers.
It seems, initially anyway, that some heads are going to roll over this one. But, my limited knowledge is 40 years old and may be unreliable.
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