>>1379077
>but they probably saw the wrong aircraft.
If you was talkin' a shitty lil cessna, with visual instruments, mebbe. We're talking military radar listing transponder beacons. ATC list heading and tail number, both of which are on a screen he and or his co-pilot should be monitoring. If he's got the wrong aircraft that's a serious error.

> The ATC error was not extending the helicopter further downwind
As a rule, civillian ATC doesn't direct military traffic. Military gets away with a lot more. Stupid shit, like loitering in a landing slot on a busy airport for example. They're supposed to 'co-operate' to 'ensure safety'.

>ATC: You're in the way of a plane commin' in to land
>5342: It'll be fine, it's my call.

Try that as a civillian pilot, watch what happens.

>>1379176
>By hiring cheap, unqualified labor based on their minority status. Which is what DEI is.
Don't worry, thanks to extensions too the h1b programme, they'll soon be cheap, underqualified labour comprised almost entirely of 'minorities'. Ever since your country valued revenue more than quality output it was fucked. What you're looking at now is decade after decade of chasing revenue. And consequences therof.

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