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Thank goodness this was deferred for now. https://www.aopa.org/news-and-media/all-news/2025/march/06/faa-postpones-medical-certification-changes

https://www.foxnews.com/us/southwest-plane-forced-go-back-gate-passenger-strips-naked

I have been having this discussion with my powered airplane flight instructor. In Arizona. Is the desert with shrubs or a plowed field preferred for an emergency off airport landing?

Description of radio calls in this interview - https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona/2025/02/22/pilot-describes-midair-collision-marana-airport/79490209007/

Anderson, former CEO of Northwest on the congestion factors involved. https://www.minnpost.com/twin-cities-business/2025/02/former-delta-ceo-assesses-risks-at-reagan-airport-where-crash-occurred/

It looks like the Lancair just overran the C172 which was landing on final.

I guess you caught me :) I think of this as just a reasonable number of aircraft. The Cardinal is good for pleasure flights around Arizona. And the Bonanza is good for longer cross-countries. And if one is going to do aerobatics than an Aerobat is needed. And for soaring one has to have a...

I was just out doing my checkout flight this AM in this new to me ship. It is fast and I sometimes felt like “what have I done?”. Happy with the purchase so far.

Interesting replay of the data - https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?replay=2025-02-19-15:28&lat=32.422&lon=-111.218&zoom=12.8

2 fatalities. RIP This airport is scheduled for a control tower due to traffic. I fly in there with some frequency. https://asn.flightsafety.org/wikibase/478760

Not at all PC https://babylonbee.com/news/delta-adds-a-little-hanging-tennis-ball-to-the-end-of-the-runway-for-female-pilots

While Wellbutrin has been added, anti-depressant pathway 2 still requires single agent only for 6 months for a special issuance.

Not listening to air traffic control as well as disabling ADS-B out for a training flight for a non-critical mission while being over 100’ too high. Our wonderful military aviators...

ASN https://asn.flightsafety.org/wikibase/476486

at https://archive.ph/EnTcv

Apparently part of this due to our politicians wanting more flights, particularly to their home towns. Because they are so important, you know… https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/01/31/defazio-plane-crash-blame-00201767

And now they apparently scrubbed social media accounts of Lobach ? https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/female-pilot-rebecca-lobach-had-her-entire-social/

Another thing in the Reuters article got me thinking about this. It mentions the altitude being shown on the tower for the helicopter as being 200’. Now I suspect that is the altitude from the transponder return. And if so, couldn’t that just be the Kollsman setting in the helicopter being off...

Tracking appears to support the idea that the heli was too high. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/soldier-identified-dc-plane-crash-data-shows-helicopter-may-have-been-too-high-2025-02-02/