Miscellaneous And Off Topic Subjects

[THE_WIZARD_]

Sounds a lot like Adolf Hitler!

[Dr. Strangelove]

[lineygoblue]

I'm just getting a gut feeling that Gabbard, RFK jr and Patel are not going to be confirmed. I think there will be at least 4-5 RINOS/Republicans who will vote with Dems to deny confirmation. They may not even be voted out of committee.

[THE_WIZARD_]

RFK and Patel will get confirmed. I think Gabbard will not.

[CGVT]

I'm just getting a gut feeling that Gabbard, RFK jr and Patel are not going to be confirmed. I think there will be at least 4-5 RINOS/Republicans who will vote with Dems to deny confirmation. They may not even be voted out of committee.

We can only hope so.

[Dr. Strangelove]

Patel will absolutely be confirmed. No one beyond Collins, Murkowski, or McConnell will have the guts to defy Trump on that one. That one is very personal for Trump.

Cassidy has been sounding very shaky on RFK and Collins is shaky on Gabbard. They could kill those two in committee.

Also, Trump is more of a RINO than Mitch McConnell is.

[THE_WIZARD_]

We can only hope a large meteor falls on you.

[Dr. Strangelove]

Welp, press secretary just said the tariffs are ON tomorrow!!! Wheeeeeeee!!!

[Mike]

Day ain’t over yet.

[Dr. Strangelove]

Why only 10% on China when Canada and Mexico are getting hit with 25%?

[THE_WIZARD_]

Trump is obviously a Chinese rube...and a Nazi.

[crashcourse]

Those NVG make you lose a lot of your peripheral vision
That helicopter never swayed on inch I think they were honed in on what was in their lane and in their lane only. The elevation question is the one that's perplexing--If your ceiling is 200 feet why be at 350 as you fly right into regen approach paths

But the government cant say they didn't see this coming --at least some of the govt
Reagan airport faced warnings over its packed airspace for years. More flights were approved anyway

[Jeff Buchanan]

This may or may not be pertinent. I think it is. The map at the link below depicts the flight paths overlaying the airport map. First, the AA flight was operating in visual conditions (VFR or visual flight rules) that permits controllers to allow for less separation between aircraft. Second, the AA flight was initially cleared to land on the main (longest) runway but at some point the controller requested that the AA crew "pivot" to the shorter runway (RW3). I don't know how far out from the landing zone that request was made. At night the crew has it's eyeballs outside to visually align with the new runway assignment and intermittently scanning altitude, airspeed, heading and the ILS (instrument landing system) bars that display azimuth and altitude for the approach to the assigned runway inside the cockpit. The second officer would have switched frequencies for the ILS from RW 1 to RW 3 - another distraction. Sounds hard, doesn't it? It is. Easier during the day, hard at night.

Third, the BlackHawk crew was flying at 350', not below 200' as it should have been with the confounding factor of reduced peripheral vision on NVGs. As Linesman said, several errors combined to produce the fatal crash. That is almost always the final conclusion of most NTSB investigations. So sad.

https://www.reuters.com/graphics/USA-CRASH/WASHINGTONDC-AIRCRAFT/dwvkkwyzxvm/

[Mike]

I read earlier that just the day before the accident a flight had to abort its landing and circle back around to avoid another aircraft.