Erik

Was this in Detroit Michigan or somewhere else in Michigan?

The recommendation got sent up the chain of command to McPherson and Esper with no decision, offer, or acceptance as of yet, right? Seems like the offer is being telegraphed I think we'd all agree and it is the right thing to do for many reasons. Fucking hair plug Modly in his civilian role stepped in his ass berating Crozier like he did and I couldn't have been happier when they fired Modly almost on the spot. That was swift and brutal justice deserving of his flagrant flouting of his appointed office. You don't treat a skipper who's dedicated his entire life to Navy with that type of disrespect, I don't care who you are.

It's insane and it's adding up all over the world. Insanity.

This yesterday from the podium in the briefing room. **DO NOT USE SUNLIGHT OR ULTRAVIOLET LIGHT INSIDE YOUR BODY, EVER!**

The Navy is testing all crew aboard the US aircraft carrier Teddy Roosevelt. Tests have been done on 94% of the 4800 crew onboard. They have found approximately 600 infected sailors aboard and 60% of those sailors (400 sailors) have no symptoms all. Read the Reuters article below. “With regard to COVID-19, we’re learning that stealth in the form of asymptomatic transmission is this adversary’s secret power,” said Rear Admiral Bruce Gillingham, surgeon general of the Navy. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-military-sympt/coronavirus-clue-most-cases-aboard-u-s-aircraft-carrier-are-symptom-free-idUSKCN21Y2GB

Crozier was in a tough spot. Faced with watching his crew go down one by one, being in tight quarters knowing that the other crewmen were in danger, and knowing this would change his readiness status was an untenable position. I fully understand his chain of command structure and so did he but his number one job was to maintain the TR in a state of 100% readiness. Anything that threatens that must be challenged as quickly and with as much force as necessary to remedy the situation. He was a leader doing what he was taught, take care of the men that serve beneath you that their appetite, health, and well being is cared for first. Modly stupidly emphasized exactly that in his ship wide announcement which leaves one scratching their head, he was fired for doing exactly what he trained to do with or without a command structure. The alternative may have been a crew and ship unable to defend herself let alone America. Then how would we have looked if a nuclear powered carrier was compromised to this degree. Hair plug needed to go, it was in the navy style of burying their dead at sea.

I sadly don't trust the man, the people around the man, or the shady double speak. Yesterday I'm watching the pandemic update rally from the white house newsroom where he says we're going to freeze WHO funding, then 30 seconds later he says I didn't say that. I literally can't take it and now is not the time to be fucking about, he's seriously absent from leadership. The firing of the Carrier Captain day before yesterday was brutal, the announcement from that hair plug Modly that berated the captain and the crew was disgraceful. What's next and hasn't there been enough drama for one single presidency? It all needs to stop and as for research I do quite a bit of it, no single source defines what I think but standing on the podium all but prescribing drugs, false hope, promise, and the uncertainty of death is beneath everything, especially when you have credentialed doctors standing right behind you. Oh and then let's talk about this 2 TRILLION dollar cash cow sausage that got enacted. The Republican hawks in congress flipped a lid and talked all kinds of mad shit back in 2008 when they needed 900 Billion to put into shoring up banks, housing, and auto makers. This after 1.5 Trillion in a tax cut. Have my Republican brothers sold every stitch of dignity? I don't even recognize the Republican party anymore, it's like the Dems on steroids. This is all a huge charlie foxtrot and it matters not what media you read, listen to, or watch. Oh and finally one more thing, the man had three plus years to re-stock the stock pile or at least check to make sure it was stocked or not. You don't find yourself in the middle of a pandemic, that you were warned about months ago, having not even bothered to check that we're prepared for a war with a virus. Even if Obama left it depleted after Katrina. Fill the damn thing it's the taxpayer money not yours. One thing that I absolutely agree with Trump on is our American manufacturing has to come back, problem is he's done nothing to bring it back other than tax cuts which got turned into CEO bonuses, share profits, and share buy back. Yeah I'm nuts, call me stupid, call me ignorant, I don't care but I'm as American as anyone and this shit sucks no matter how you try and defend it. What ever happened to an honest man doing an honest job and treating everyone with respect? Has it all gone as an era of the past in trade for television ratings? The movie "Idiocracy" nailed it, thanks to His Holiness President Komacho! Let's give praise. Call me when it's over. I'm done.

Jeanba there may be more truth to that than you know. Doctor Trump is now prescribing hydroxychloroquine, you'll laugh or cry when you learn why. https://www.forbes.com/sites/lisettevoytko/2020/04/07/trump-reportedly-holds-financial-interest-in-sanofi-french-drugmaker-of-hydroxychloroquine/#9b598401ef65

That sucks. Wish he'd taken things a little more serious, though nobody deserves this so indeed hope he regains his health.

Agreed. In the two week period from December 26, 2019 to January 8, 2020 when all this information was coming out of China's CDC we should have closed ALL international travel coming into the United States. Inexperience, susceptibility to conspiracy theories, and his own anger of being impeached led to classifying the intelligence as top secret and subjecting Congress' hearings to classified which had the effect of keeping the information from the people, states, municipalities, and hospitals. It was deny deny deny, hoax hoax, next democrat hoax, deny deny deny, yeah I always knew it was a pandemic. I can't think of a bigger dereliction of responsibilities and duties.

It's actually worse than that. Here's a couple good reads worth knowing about. https://www.vox.com/2020/3/20/21188144/senators-dumping-stock-as-market-tanks https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-03-09/how-coronavirus-spread-from-patient-zero-in-seattle

Much love brother, no hate, you and your family be safe and stay safe. This is our time to be the Americans we are all proud of, the head Cheeto matters not, let's just get through this alive.

We're #1 Are you tired of winning yet?

If you look like you're robbing the bank you're allowed in, all others are refused service. A lot of banks here no longer have lobby access to live tellers. You may use the ATMs or Mobile Banking for everything you can and need during this time.

Thanks for the suggestion ... I'll see what I can get incorporated.

DPD out for the count, that's gotta hurt. Who's going to fill the role? The chosen one signed the executive order to activate war time production but has yet actually mandated which companies are to make what and if he has tasked them he's refusing to say so. I'm so sick of our administration being half assed to the point of absurdity. There's no accountability for anything not even firing the NIH task force office in the white house that was responsible for our preparedness in the event of another outbreak. If you're not sick of winning then you've been on another planet. May we all get out of this alive. E

One of the biggest regrets I have is what nationalism has done in our country. Some people were so busy making America great again that we are in no position to help the rest of the world. We're literally trying to keep ourselves from drowning and everyone else is on their own. We can't be a global economy, a global civilization that travels within hours between continents, but focus only on our selves. We either want to be a global community or we don't. Time to shite or get off the pot.

Coronavirus AKA Covid19, discovered in November 2019 in China when the alert sounds were sounded. The 19 in Covid19 means discovered 2019, fun fact. Western civilizations and European countries were all asleep at the wheel watching the train wreck in the US that not even the loudest siren in Asia could be heard over the whine. China postponed the Chinese New Year folks, they don't do that for a run a day flu or cold. This is not political, just utterly disgusting and I digress. May you all weather the storm and sail again another day even in times like these when stupid is manning the helm. Be well all. E

Someone should recognize the terrain, clouds, or game feel and move this. It is freakishly feeling out of place in the Pub.

The bone yard here in town isn't a grave, that's always a big misunderstanding. The bone yard houses and stores thousands of aircraft most of which are kept in a state that putting them back into service can happen over night. The crews that put these aircraft into storage are pros, they cover, protect, and have systems in place to protect an aircraft down to the smallest items you can think of. They take the entire inventory into consideration when planning the end stages of an aircraft and even that's not the end of these old gals. Once they deem an aircraft beyond storage viability they part it out and use those parts to bring other aircraft back into stored ready status. The parts are also used to supply museums with parts and air frames that they in turn restore. Even as an aircraft doesn't resemble an aircraft much they take those pieces and sell them to the many privately owned aircraft salvage yards around here. The US Government are pros at decommissioning and salvaging these aircraft and it is a necessary stage of their life. The guys at the boneyard do it with the grace and poise you'd expect from those caring for these tough but aged wings. The running joke down on the farm is when the tour guys roll past a multi acre section of land that's vacant and they tell the folks that's where they house all the stealth aircraft. The tour guys have to get a chuckle out of every photo that's taken. This last phase of duty isn't the end it's a reunion of the toughest and something to be damn proud of.

The State of Alabama voted to approve an anti abortion bill injecting itself into the reproductive rights of women. It was only time before a similar bill was introduced that castrates men. Mess with the bull get the horns, mess with the cow get your nuts removed. Once this starts picking up momentum women everywhere will introduce the male anti abortion bill where we castrate at birth and only give the reproductive right back when a man has met the female requirements to father a child. This is the absurdity of government being involved in your sex life. Get used to it these ignorant bastards opened the door with their sexist abortion ban and now men everywhere will pay the price. When will people learn to butt the F out of other people's lives?

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/06/us/kobe-bryant-island-express-helicopters.html See also above, good background.

Pretty much everything in a nutshell from all the different sources I've read. Most notable to me in all the reports is/are the absence of distress calls. If 72EX had a mechanical problem that caused the left high speed descending turn then why, not once, did the pilot communicate a problem. I was raised and lived on the California coast and that terrain and those conditions are all too familiar. The marine layer is like different balls of density all stuck together in a rolling obscure fog or cloud. You can stand in this fog and watch your visibility increase and decrease as the moving obscurity is pushed around you. It's a very surreal experience even standing on the ground so at altitude with both movement, speed, and obstacles it's incredibly, no, impossibly dangerous. That's why every controller indicated as such along 72EX's route. It is more realistic that 72EX's pilot was already in IMC during his straight and level ascending flight then at some point disorientation and possible early on-set of vertigo set in and the loss of attitude and direction ensued. At that point the pilot became a passenger and along with the other souls on board perished, RIP. The danger associated with this type marine layer is that your mind plays tricks on you. You're so used to seeing the ground and objects that when you can't see anything and you've flown into IMC your mind still thinks it sees things that aren't really there. That's why Inadvertent IMC is so deadly. Identifying this condition and training for it is supposed to be what the pilots certify for but it just goes to show you how different and deadly training and proficiency really are. I still contend that if they had set down in Burbank or Glendale, hell landed anywhere it was a helicopter, and called for an Uber, Taxi, or car service that they'd all still be alive today and they still would have made their game on time. Humans, the strangest oddest most stupid smart animal of all the animals on Earth.

And now we know why they flew VFR and SVFR. Simply put the aircraft and pilot were rated for instruments but the company who owned the aircraft didn't have an IFR certificate and insurance to fly IFR flights. This type of certification only allowed the pilots working for Island Express to file VFR flight plans. This lowered the company's operating cost and insurance cost while allowing them to operate as 98% of all helo flight in SoCal can be performed VFR. Additionally the S-76B should have had two pilots. The aircraft was certified for a single pilot but never recommended for a single pilot especially in weather where the work load on the pilot increases exponentially. Believe it or not this appears to boil down to money, risk, and pilot error. Island Express should be IFR rated and should have not made the S-76B they flew single pilot electable but instead required two pilots. Kobe should have coughed up the extra money for the extra pilot, if he even knew that was an option or that he was risking his life flying single pilot in that aircraft, he may have thought that was business as usual. A second set of eyes in the left seat potentially may have provided the necessary feedback to cancel or discontinue the flight mid-journey at a bare minimum the second pilot would have reduced the workload for a pilot flying in sub optimal conditions. In the end they couldn't fly IFR because they couldn't file for it. This flight had all the cards stacked on the wrong side before it departed Orange County. The law suits are going to be horrendous and people and companies will be destroyed over this abundance of poor judgement. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/30/us/kobe-bryant-crash-flight-certification.html E

Unless you plan on holding for extended periods of time changing inflight without any previous planning is a pain in the butt. The pilot should have been a pro with that many hours so he would have pulled the route weather seen the marine layer and inversion and known he was in for a soupy ride at some point. He should have taken a few extra minutes prior to departure and filed an IFR starting from a way point in his route somewhere with a future departure time from that way point so his IFR didn't auto cancel. Then he could have departed John Wayne VFR and picked up the IFR in flight. There's a reason he didn't do it and we'll never know but he could have. He could have also taken a second pilot to help with all this along the way had he been prepared. His experience should have told him this and he shouldn't have been so eager to please the client that he ignored it all. What's the harm in saying the weather conditions are below anyone's ability to safely navigate we either take the time to do it right or we don't go at all. That was his call to make and he picked stunt pilot instead. I'm holding out hope there was something unforeseen to account for this, but with yesterday's reports the pilot broadcasted a condition report moments before the fatal crash that he was climbing for visibility it's looking less realistic.