"Take the money you save and plow that into modernization and training. Maybe we can prevent the next “pilot error” by giving them more training and experience. There should be little else that pilots do other than fly under the most rigorous and challenging positions we can create in training"
"In the 24-hour news cycle, everyone wants to play the blame game. It is not just the corrupt media that plays this game. Government agencies, media, and even senior “leaders” in the military are all active participants. We rush to blame someone before the data is gathered and the analysis is conducted.
"Let’s also stipulate that every bad thing that happens in the universe, from ingrown toenails to solar flares, is Donald Trump’s fault. Also, nothing good can be attributed to him, his family, or his cabinet. After ten days, he is clearly responsible for all the ills that festered over the last 18 years in our corrupt and increasingly overreaching federal junta. So, let’s think about the SECOND most important cause of the disaster since we know that somehow it was all mainly Trump’s fault.
"This will likely be blamed on pilot error of the helicopter pilot. That will be a sad eulogy for a young patriot and a mother of five suddenly left without a father and husband. (We know that to the Left, men and toxic masculinity are insensate evil and father figures are nefarious and unnecessary.) We don’t KNOW it was pilot error, ATC error, hardware failure, or some combination of all three, but let’s assume there was some pilot error involved. AS MUCH AS THE TALKING HEADS WOULD LIKE, THIS CANNOT BE BLAMED SOLELY ON THE PILOT.
"Much of this has to be laid at the feed to Lloyd Austin and the rest of his woke, poser, cosplaying general officers. Our “army of emptiness” must bear much of the responsibility for this disaster. At the same time that the FAA TRIPLED the number of hours necessary to become a commercial pilot, the Army has drastically cut the flight hours for pilots. Many junior officers do not get enough time behind the stick to be rated as a Pilot in Command (PIC) and able to be the primary pilot in a helicopter. In the recent past, Army pilots would get 500 hours of flying time. Today, it takes fewer than 200 hours in many cases to become a PIC. I don’t know if fuel costs and shortages, spare parts, or something else is the cause. I do know that in many aviation units, an E5 (Sergeant) acts as a platoon sergeant (an E7 position) and that there are not enough maintenance technicians to keep all the airframes properly serviced.
"More stick time means fewer pilot errors." . . .
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