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Has it been proven that the "female" pilot was born with a hang down?

[quote]Wouldn't the glide slope for a runway be a big absolutely not no fly zone for anything except landing aircraft?[/quote

300 feet and one mile from the approach end of a busy runway is no place to be. I’ve flown a lot of approaches to DCA(the Mount Vernon 01 in this case) and there’s always helicopter traffic. It’s usually not a threat.

The helicopter took visual separation when they should have taken a vector for traffic.

I’ve also heard the tower controller was working arrivals and departures, plus VFR transitions. That shouldn’t happen. Arrivals and departures at Reagan are enough workload for the smartest among us. They clear flights to “line up and wait” as soon as the landing aircraft crosses the threshold, then you get cleared to takeoff with a jet on a three mile final. It’s a high ops tempo environment. You have to be paying attention. From what I understand they normally use two controllers for that. One to work landing and departing traffic and one to handle transiting vfr traffic.

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Yeah but 28 year old straight girls dont suddenly become blackhawk pilots

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Couple of years isn’t “suddenly”

Why the F am I arguing this ?

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Has it been proven that the "female" pilot was born with a hang down?

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Careful. We saw how the OT Tranny mob attacked HRV because he didn’t want to eat trans food. Could be you.

It seems the ATC was specific enough in where the plane was at the time for the helo crew to get the correct mark? Just a good ol fashioned frick up?

Itd be damned hard to do on purpose, much less on accident. I wonder how many times this happens around the world where everyone just gets lucky?

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Fairly certain that dude is insane irl

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I can’t disagree.

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It seems the ATC was specific enough in where the plane was at the time for the helo crew to get the correct mark? Just a good ol fashioned frick up?

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.ATC will state a clock position and a distance/altitude . “Callsign XX traffic 2 o’clock and 1 mile XX Feet.

I’m not sure if they gave PAT25 that callout. I need to listen to the tapes again. From what I recall of the tapes, PAT25 took visual separation.

Maybe unrelated, but PAT25 was using UHF apparently. It’s basically a military only comm channel. I was taught early on as a military aviator to not use UHF in congested civilian airspace because the civilians can’t hear you. All air traffic controllers simulcast on VHF(civilian frequencies) and UHF. That’s why you can’t hear PAT25’s responses on liveATC.

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I’m not sure if they gave PAT25 that callout. I need to listen to the tapes again. From what I recall of the tapes, PAT25 took visual separation.

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This was their initial traffic call to PAT25:

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PAT25, traffic just south of the Woodrow Bridge, a CRJ, it's 1200 feet setting up for runway 33

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Has it been proven that the "female" pilot was born with a hang down?

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As far fetched as it sounds, there are rumours of this sort flowing on the great Elon Musk's X platform as well as his fellow social media visionary Chicken's Political Talk forum.

If you have landed at DCA in the recent past you can definitely see how they are understaffed. I lived in Alexandria, VA from 2019-2023 and used DCA to fly home for leave and holiday gatherings. I definitely noticed a drop off in the quality of moving planes to where they needed to be by 2023. One time we were sitting on the taxiway for something like 25-30 minutes waiting for instructions as to which gate they wanted us to pull up to.