FAA Wants Permanent Helicopter Restrictions at Reagan Airport

https://www.wsj.com/business/airlines/faa-wants-permanent-helicopter-restrictions-at-reagan-airport-fb11c228

by impish9208 • 1 year ago

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impish9208• 1 year ago

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xhkkffbf• 1 year ago

How are the fancy people in Washington going to get around if they can't take a helicopter Uber?

sigmar• 1 year ago

[excuse the layman question] what exactly is the benefit to the military helicopter training in airspace that is heavily trafficked by commercial flights? What are the downsides to using empty airspace with simulated traffic for most training? Is it mainly that they don't get to learn the visual cues from being above the actual Potomac?

justin662• 1 year ago

They're training in the same terrain where they'd be required to operate if their mission was to evacuate Washington VIPs in the event of an emergency.

mschoch• 1 year ago

in an actual emergency, you would divert traffic from DCA – the logic here is absurd

potato3732842• 1 year ago

This isn't to say that the situation at Reagan wasn't stupid and a disaster waiting to happen but military pilots need to be reasonably be expected to operate in far more chaotic and busy airspace if the need arises so it makes sense that the .mil thinks nothing of routinely tossing them into very busy airspace.

gus_massa• 1 year ago

That is like using civilians as NPC.

FAA Wants Permanent Helicopter Restrictions at Reagan Airport

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