Comment by alistairSH
7 months ago
Was there something in their personal life or career to warrant that - a setback, some family situation? Otherwise they seemed qualified and flew that route a few times already.
Beyond her general lack of flight-time? Her primary role appeared to be some sort of liaison in DC, not flying Blackhawks.
450 hours over 5 years for a Army helicopter pilot stateside doesn't seem to be abnormally low.
That's only 90 hours/year. Not even 2 hours/week.
That may be common for an Army pilot, but for somebody expected to fly during wartime, transport VIPs under stressful conditions, etc that's pretty goddam minimal.
Is that based on something other than vibes?
From what I can tell, that's the low end of average, but that's based on 5ish mins of fact-checking.
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One part of an emergency plan is making sure people can back each other up and fill in if necessary. Which in practice means some people in backup / if-needed roles will be near the low end of whatever time minimums they need to maintain, yet still need to fly sometimes.