Trump Administration Accomplishments

ViperHorn said:
This is where Trump goes off script and to the untrained eye/ear makes a stupid statement.

The issue is there aren't enough EXPERIENCED Air Traffic Controllers to go around so the training center is pushing them through as fast as they can. Also, during the SloJoe years standards were dropped.

The Army was supposedly on the correct airway so did the Controller assume the AA flight was watching out? Why didn't TCAS alert each aircraft? We weren't told the experience level of the ATC'ers at Regan last night, but the snippet of the ATC that I heard was only a Controller asking the Army if they had the AA plane in sight (unfortunately 14 seconds later the answer was no). If there wasn't a call before that to the AA plane informing them that a helo was near we have a problem.
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Someone claimed that thousands of qualified applicants have been denied for over a decade. So, short term training bottlenecks not the issue.
 
ViperHorn said:
This is where Trump goes off script and to the untrained eye/ear makes a stupid statement.

The issue is there aren't enough EXPERIENCED Air Traffic Controllers to go around so the training center is pushing them through as fast as they can. Also, during the SloJoe years standards were dropped.

The Army was supposedly on the correct airway so did the Controller assume the AA flight was watching out? Why didn't TCAS alert each aircraft? We weren't told the experience level of the ATC'ers at Regan last night, but the snippet of the ATC that I heard was only a Controller asking the Army if they had the AA plane in sight (unfortunately 14 seconds later the answer was no). If there wasn't a call before that to the AA plane informing them that a helo was near we have a problem.
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Apparently TCAS is deactivated below 1000 feet. I wouldn't know since I didn't work the front end while I was flying in C-130s. I do know that it saved my arse in Iraq one night when we were flying outside of Baghdad and all of a sudden we went straight down! Pilot told us over headsets that TCAS said go down and as we were head to head with a F-16 that was zipping towards us...BTW the F-16 was in the wrong airspace. Pfft, and one seater pilots are supposed to be the best. I didn't see it but the pilot said we weren't far from colliding with it.
 
During my years as a pilot in the USAF, I concluded that night flying is a problem because it's dark at night - and things I could see easily in daytime were much harder to see at night. That's why there are lights on the wingtips and rotating beacons - but it's still a challenge to see other aircraft traffic at night.
 
HornHuskerDad said:
During my years as a pilot in the USAF, I concluded that night flying is a problem because it's dark at night - and things I could see easily in daytime were much harder to see at night. That's why there are lights on the wingtips and rotating beacons - but it's still a challenge to see other aircraft traffic at night.
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My granddad was a Navy pilot from '39 - '60 and he said the same thing about flying at night. One of the projects he worked on was the development and testing of the AIM-7 Sparrow missile. While doing that, he once had to land this piece of $hit with the ridiculous nosegear on an aircraft carrier at night. Though he was carrier-trained and had landed several fighter planes on carriers before, he said that particular landing was frightening.

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Re the Biden pick to lead FAA not knowing things particularl to FAA not sure any current Trump nominee would know particulars about the new position either.
However his focus on Diversity and inclusion did send up red flags And likely led to tragedy at Reagan
 
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