Comments by "Stephen Villano" (@spvillano) on "WUSA9" channel.

@BoogieBoogsForever sure they did, they waved a paper and proclaimed that DEI is fraud, despite the line item in the contract being waved around being an official requirement and approved by Congress.
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Yeah, came close to getting booted out of an ER once, Nurse Ratchet was in the process of reading the riot act when doctor came running in and shut her up, as I had a fractured vertebra in my neck. Endorphins...
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So, a judge has determined that DOGE can raid and forcibly take over any 501(c)(3) organization. That means that even churches and their charities are fair game as well. The Constitution is now officially dead, we have a god-king, Congress has abdicated and so has this jurist.
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@lillianshaver24 so, that means that fixed wing aircraft cannot achieve a stabilized approach, since they cannot change direction due to the tracks they're riding upon. Got ya. Both can take evasive measures, it depends on time of warning and initiation of evasive actions and that's pre-established for which direction each aircraft turns to. That said, the aircraft would have the maneuvering ability of an overfed cow, due to low altitude and speed, it being in a landing sequence. The helicopter would be in stable flight on its assigned course and slightly more nimble, but neither aircraft are fighter jets to begin with, so they're not going to be making any Top Gun kinds of maneuvers. Worse, the radar shows that they first received a potential collision alert at around 1 mile distance, with a mutual closure speed of around 300 knots. That'd give them around 10 seconds to locate each other visually, as requested and queried by ATC, in the dark, in a congested environment with significant air traffic and light pollution. An environment where human depth perception is infamously poor to begin with. Frankly, I'm more curious as to why the ATC automated systems didn't begin alerting after the fixed wing aircraft completed its last turn, as at that point, they were several miles apart. Regardless, experience has shown that there are no single points of failure in accidents like this, but a slew of multiple factors that all line up to create the conditions of the accident. And that's most of what the NTSB is there for, to ascertain all of those factors, figure out what part they played and offer suggested measures to prevent such an event from ever occurring again. Circling back to your comment, there is no fixed anything when a collision alert is sounded, the local flight computer takes priority over all, including ATC and standardized maneuvering is to occur once a potential collision is confirmed, as spurious alerts do occur often in congested environments.
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@kacey8372 apparently aircraft on his planet land in midair. Ruskie bots are going nuts tonight with this.
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@jmanynames7410 given the choice of laughing over what I can't control or blowing my brain onto the wall behind me, I've always opted for laughing. Have I ever considered otherwise? I'm a chronic pain patient, for a fraction of a second, yeah, laughing is far less work and far more permanent. I didn't survive nearly 30 years of military service to toss it all away on a rash choice on a bad day. For those scrambling to figure out what eosinophils are, they're a white blood cell that tends to respond to parasitic infections and allergies. They'll be elevated in people with chronic allergies and asthma, as well as worm infections and occasionally, they get a bit stupidly lost and attack the wrong things. There's a hell of a lot of research on taming them and wrangling them back under control going on, so he's got light at the end of the tunnel that isn't attached to an oncoming train. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eosinophil
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I've only one complaint about the conference - it went on too long. There's been no time to gather significant information, but they're forced to coddle the press. Hell, at this point, there's little that anyone on stage could tell or ascertain yet. Still, a democracy doesn't hide information and investigations, it reports on the investigation's progress within reason and without contaminating the investigation by premature or partial reporting and giving guesswork. When the final report is issued, the star of the show for me and every ATC operator and pilot will be lessons learned and how to prevent such a thing from happening in the future.
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Who cares about Russian army training?
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