A Comment on Air Traffic...

[Stephen3141]

Washington DC plane crash live updates: Air traffic controllers interviewed, helicopter black box found

Officials are examining black boxes from both aircraft and say they appear to be in good condition and may provide details on what went wrong.

www.bbc.com

(Flying at the same altitude, is not necesarily forbidden by the rules of
safety. Visual separation, is, in this case.)

But, I wish to bring back the discussion of having thousands of electric
flying "cars", along with thousands of delivery multicopters ("drones")
also operating within city limits.

The rosy suggestions by billionaires, who want to develop flying cars,
AND thousands of delivery drones, and clog up the sky with them,
ALWAYS WAS A BAD IDEA.

Anyone who flies R/C aircraft, would know that "visual separation" is
enough to avoid a collision.

I will wait for the professional analysis of the collision.

But, I point out the insane related topics, that no one wanted to bring up.

 

[JimR-OCDS]

Washington DC plane crash live updates: Air traffic controllers interviewed, helicopter black box found

Officials are examining black boxes from both aircraft and say they appear to be in good condition and may provide details on what went wrong.

www.bbc.com

(Flying at the same altitude, is not necesarily forbidden by the rules of
safety. Visual separation, is, in this case.)

But, I wish to bring back the discussion of having thousands of electric
flying "cars", along with thousands of delivery multicopters ("drones")
also operating within city limits.

The rosy suggestions by billionaires, who want to develop flying cars,
AND thousands of delivery drones, and clog up the sky with them,
ALWAYS WAS A BAD IDEA.

Anyone who flies R/C aircraft, would know that "visual separation" is
enough to avoid a collision.

I will wait for the professional analysis of the collision.

But, I point out the insane related topics, that no one wanted to bring up.

That was a report first made yesterday and Trump said that
the helicopter was flying too high, was based on what they knew
at the time. The BBC didn't include the full report on what Trump said.

OH and BTW, the news this morning said that the initial reports are that the helicopter was flying
too high.

 

[com7fy8]

Yes, if a military trained crew with night goggles can crash into a commercial passenger plane while supervised by air controllers using computer monitoring, as far as I know, surely we might need some pretty competent flyers to manage in a sea of other fliers plus drones in a city sky. They might need effective, fail-safe auto-piloting with sensors to detect where other vehicles are.

One thing I thought of is those military night goggles maybe gave the fliers a sort of "tunnel vision" so they did not see that plane . . . which was coming in at a high speed from their side.

In a way, practically, there was no accident about that > with both vehicles flying so fast, to both cross that exact point in that moment was not very statistically likely, I would say. So, in a way, it was not an accident.

 

[JimR-OCDS]

My question is, why are commercial airlines flying in an Army helicopter training area?

 

[Ray Glenn]

My question is, why are commercial airlines flying in an Army helicopter training area?

They were not supposed to be flying at the same altitude. The reason for the training exercise was to follow procedures for actual emergency situations. To give you an example. My Son in Law and Secret Service ran the elevator to the White House Bunker on 9-11 with no one else in the White House. They had been ordered to take the elevator down to remove all humans left in the building. All to avoid an apparent last attack .....That plane crashed in Pennsylvania. But they would not have been prepared without practice. Same with the chopper.