Mid-Air Collision in DC

[gearhog]

1 hour ago, uhhello said:

Why is there no talk about the instructor/evaluator on board?  

According to this article, It appears there was a Capt, a CWO, and a SSgt on board.

Honest question: Is it common in the Army for a Chief Warrant Officer to be the Instructor/Evaluator and have the A-code with a Captain in the seat?

 

[Lawman]

According to this article, It appears there was a Capt, a CWO, and a SSgt on board.
Honest question: Is it common in the Army for a Chief Warrant Officer to be the Instructor/Evaluator and have the A-code with a Captain in the seat?
 

Warrants classify into 4 specific career tracks, one of them being Instructor/Evaluator.

IP is not an upgrade in the Army, it is a specific career progression.

We have made RLO(O series) instructors on occasion, but it is usually tied to specific detail such as the exchange billet with the UK.

It is normal, she would log PI even though she has a PIC rating, because she is being evaluated. Same is true of an IP evaluating the commander. The only time you get weird logging of a kind of dual PC condition is an IP conducting a check ride from the control station and a Stands pilot (IP upgrade) conducting a simultaneous evaluation from the bench or jump seat in a 60/47.


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[Biff_T]

1 hour ago, BashiChuni said:

as young captains with below average flight time?

First assignment captains with average time.    The three that I'm thinking of specifically were all good pilots.  It may be rare, but we had a few shiny pennies that didn't suck as pilots.   They were good people too.  I knew a few execs in my 11H career who were solid pilots as well. 

The crappiest pilot I knew was a 60 dude who crossed over to the Huey.  He happened to be the CC.   

[ClearedHot]

 

[Clayton Bigsby]

18 hours ago, ClearedHot said:

I don't know how the tower radar derives altitude?  Raw data, does ADSB feed into it? 

Mode C information, ADSB is a possibility as well but the primary source is Mode C readout.