Do they normally have more than 500 hours to start this training?
It would depend on the pilot and where they are getting them from.
Some have more then others, and from what I understand outside of SOAR, hours don't mean much as you can often make the amount needed at the unit.
And again, peacetime military with the pilots woth the kost often not being on the Blackhawk anymore
Yeah, an environment that gets them used to the terrain and comfortable flying low to it with someone constantly watching them and barking at them if they get too high would be totally useless since there are no civilian airliners at risk.
Yeah...that doesn't work that way.
Pilots are ALWAYS flying to keep thier hours up.
Especially thier mission route, as that way they become used to it in every way.
You can get them a giant area, but it wouldnt be the same as what they need.
because they were flying at nught via NVGs.
can you accurately recreate an Airliner at night taking off and landing through NVGs that the pilot has to react to?
no, nit outside of simulators
i mean, you can only get so many hours on a simulator before doing the real thing, and again, it is completely diffrent when in tje bird vs in a simulation. You dont have the same environment. Which makes a diffrence. Add in they don't have thier crew chiefs in the simulators ans they play a VITAL role in these.
Yeah, I wonder if training accidents played any role in that.
You do know we lose more soldiers to training accidents then we do combat right?
It is a risk factor taken into account when planning them.
airborne has a high as hell casulaty ratinf fir training jumps!
It sure is absurd how you'll defend even the slightest bit of criticism and try to brush aside literally any suggestions for improvement.
bevause i tend to actually know ehat is going on in most cases.
or can easily find out
Yes. Yes I would.
Somehow you seem to think that elected and unelected officials are worth more than an airliner full of civilians. They are not Zach. They all accepted responsibilities by undertaking their roles in serving the American people. The people on the plane bought a plane ticket to DC. Can you see a difference here? I was explicit, I don't care if they were training to have President on board that helicopter and they were evacuating because it was Independence Day III and the Aliens were blowing up the White House again, they should not be endangering the lives of civilians for the sake of training.
Then you are scarifing potentially even more then a single plane full.
Do you know how mamy covilians are in danger of military training on a constant basis? Its more then the traffic that gors through Reagan...
yes, but they generally trained out side the city until the pilot was ready for advanced maneuvers.
Most of the army never did training outside a city then in it.
And they would take it slow to learn how to maneuver but that it.