Rational vs. irrational reporting

[pbaldy]

"The chopper was equipped with a TCAS (collision avoidance system) but apparently didn't have it switched on".
Why this is optional?

I have no knowledge on the subject, but I would speculate that military aircraft need the ability to turn it off if, in a combat situation, it would broadcast their location. Not good if the enemy can see where you are.

That said, I can think of no reason it should have been off in this situation.

 

[Pat Hartman]

and the reporter is horrific in attempting to point a finger of blame at Trump.

It's always Trump's fault

Trump wasn't saying that the flight controller OR the pilot was a DEI hire. Trump's problem is that he expects his listeners to understand the reference to DEI as a general, persistent, problem. His point was that it was DEI policies at a minimum which made the tower understaffed and caused one person to have to do two jobs which certainly had an impact on the crash. But, I agree. He should have not even mentioned DEI prior to the investigation.

 

[Minty]

I would strongly suspect he had no idea the Tower was understaffed at that point he made those comments.
It was his usual babbling incoherent rhetoric when it was completely uncalled for.

 

[The_Doc_Man]

That said, I can think of no reason it should have been off in this situation.

I edited my previous comment to reflect one good reason. Too many alarms during a crucial procedure, and those alarms have to be manually shut down. During landing, particularly with aircraft in an invisible queue on the runway's glide path, every TCAS on every plane will complain about potential collisions due to closeness. I didn't think about that at the time I first posted, but it has come out that to prevent spurious alarms in special circumstances, you switch it off. Otherwise you'll be too busy hitting the master alarm Clear button to fly the plane.

 

[The_Doc_Man]

It was his usual babbling incoherent rhetoric when it was completely uncalled for.

It wasn't that long ago, in another thread in this very forum, that the comment was made that Democrats never wasted the opportunity of a tragedy to make some point. Trump is merely pulling from the Democrat's playbook.

 

[AccessBlaster]

It's coming out that the helo was in the wrong space at the wrong time, something Trump referenced at the presser.

 

[Pat Hartman]

Even the first video we saw had the helo headed straight for the passenger plane at the same altitude and so was on a collision path. Even with clear sky's and maybe clear sky's make it worse, but all the city lights have to interfere with "seeing" something as big as an aircraft right in front of your nose. If it had been further away, the helo pilot probably would have "seen" it. It would be interesting to see an image of what the helo pilot should have seen with the goggles and without. Also, the night vision goggles seriously interfere with peripheral vision although it looks like the plane was perpendicular to the helo's flight path but the angle of approach could have really hidden the plane until it was too late due to the limited peripheral vision. Maybe most of the shades were down and so the tell-tale rows of lights didn't wake up the helo pilot.

 

[AccessBlaster]

Have a look at this short explanation.

 

[Isaac]

I would strongly suspect he had no idea the Tower was understaffed at that point he made those comments.
It was his usual babbling incoherent rhetoric when it was completely uncalled for.

I think pointing out that major change he made to FAA staffing, which Biden revoked, and bringing up the general topic of DEI being totally inappropriate in this context was pretty darn relevant. Wait 2 mo. everyone will forgot this ever happened....So, awkward, but best to bring it up now while people will truly 'get it'. After a school shooting everyone talks gun control; after a car accident everyone talks DUI penalties. Laken Riley gets killed they introduce a bill within days named after her - pretty normal in politics.
Nothing insensitive about solving a problem fast. And he did add a bunch of sympathetic typical comments as well.

 

[Pat Hartman]

I can't argue with your position Isaac but Trump is ALWAYS taken out of context and that means that the left will simply dig in their heels and take potshots at Trump over this remark. He needs to be better than them and avoid giving them this type of opportunity to make themselves look downright stupid by arguing in favor of DEI. Although, I do love it when the left has to take the stupid side of an argument to be anti-Trump so maybe it was good after all that Trump brought up DEI before the investigation happened

 

[The_Doc_Man]

Any time we put the safety of our people over DEI we are doing a good thing. When we put DEI over competency at a critical job where lives depend on proper action, we are doing a bad thing. End of discussion.

 

[Isaac]