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Turn the gain down…that fixes green.

60 plus 4. There was another aircraft on long finals for the other runway, which would have also been on a similar bearing from the helo. This is the USA. There are some strange VFR and IFR mixes there.

Sounding like a normal army UH-60 now. It does show up on this, though it's much harder to use than FR24. globe.adsbexchange.com/

It seems that the callsign was PAT-25, which apparently stands for "Priority Air Transport". Claims that it was a VH-60 which is the VIP variant also used as Marine One. There is an audio from ATC in which it is asked if it has the CRJ in sight, and when it replies in the affirmative, is told to...

It doesn't show up on FR24. The CRJ shows a normal return at 900', and the next one is at 25', so the point of impact is basically on the eastern edge of the Potomac. It's in a direct line south of the Mall. Police have denied that it was theirs.

None of which is surprising. The cabin crew should alert others as the first priority, otherwise the cabin crew at the front, and the pilots, would have no idea of what is happening. I wonder if a window of time existed for a quick door opening (slide be damned) and out the door with it...

Korea has lost another aircraft, though thankfully all got off safely. Looking at the video, it would appear that a fire has started towards the rear of the cabin, during pushback. Looks to have been a reasonably ordered evacuation, though still some people carrying bags. But, the fire has...

In my lifetime, there will be zero commercial impact. And about the same viability. Long term, who knows, but this is up there with Mr Fusion. Hopefully cleaner, otherwise what is the point. It won't be cheaper.

How would the pilots ever work up enough courage to go flying?

Common in the USA, when you didn't want them coming in. On the other hand, the cleaners never seemed to turn up if you turned the sign around. Happened in UK. What also happened quite a lot, was that if you left the sign on the door, they'd then ring you up. There was a reason it was on the door!@

Not for the destination. They’ll fix that with holding within the last couple of hundred miles. You can’t slow down enough, especially at altitude, to make much difference. This would just be for Afghanistan. Holding patterns waste from 6-12 or so minutes, per pattern. It’s a little unusual to...

Just timing adjustments. Smaller changes can be done with a jink of a minute or two. I don’t recall any that were especially rough, but a couple could have been a bit longer.

All of them. There was some burning off, but I didn't think it was all that notable. The fishing boats out of Bangkok were an interesting sight. Made you think you were over land, when you were nowhere near it. Perhaps Pearce (2FTS) or Sale (CFS). I recall a RAF bloke at CFS, and 2FTS had USAF...

Which is a way of guaranteeing that it will never happen.

Most of my flying involved crossing the equator at some point, so it was a rare trip on which you didn't see some lightning. At altitude the flashes can be seen far over the horizon, so there were some nights when you could see it before the radar. On one trip, approaching WA from Singapore...

Like everything. It varies. From what I recall of Heathrow, you said your callsign…and they’d get back to you within a minute or so. As a generalisation, on radio calls, you say your altitude and if you’re descending, then whatever you’re going to. JFK is unbelievably rude, terse, non...

From what I saw yesterday, apparently the actual disassembly was caused by the destruct system. It happened some minutes after the loss of telemetry, and only 30 seconds before objects were visibly re-entering. So, that sounds like the system destroyed it to ensure that it would hit the...

No being part of the company any more, it's hard to be too specific. The feedback I do get is that the current management is no better than the previous one, and is still completely hostile to the staff. I doubt that multiple decades of toxic behaviour is ever going to be erased. As for the...

Perhaps. I’ve never seen a video from the ground of a fire bottle being set off. But, I’d expect at least a smoke trail from the engine if the bottle were needed, and that doesn’t seem to be there. But, if the bottle were fired, you wouldn’t restart the engine again. It also seems a bit early in...

It’s definitely there from one angle. It’s the right engine, which is the one that is shown having a compressor stall earlier. It’s quite possible for a jet engine, to run, but not produce power, or to start compressor stalling as you increase the power. But, if running, even at low power, you’d...