Not exactly a confidence booster

[Manonthestreet]

Navy report: 2014 Super Hornet crash was preventable
The crash was a reminder of how a small mistake in the cockpit of a fighter jet can snowball quickly. After entering the maneuver too fast, the pilot had seconds to take corrective action. But because he failed to execute standard cross checks – and because of his inexperience using the helmet-mounted display – he lost “situational awareness,” the report said.

The pilot, investigators learned later, hadn’t gone through a recommended computer-based course before being cleared to fly with the visor-mounted display. In fact, the investigator discovered, out of 17 squadrons based at Oceana, none reported requiring pilots to complete the course; only one of the squadrons was even aware it existed. Navy report 2014 Super Hornet crash was preventable HamptonRoads.com PilotOnline.com

 

[Mr. H.]

In one of the jets, a young pilot was flying his first training mission since becoming qualified to use a special helmet that projects key flight data - such as air speed, altitude, target range - onto his visor.

Well, was he qualified or not?

 

[whitehall]

Poor leadership from the top equals lax training standards and fatal accidents. Pushing sub-standard pilots beyond their capabilities for whatever reason is another problem. It brings to mind the first female carrier pilot pushed beyond her capabilities by the Clinton administration. Kara Hultgren crashed her plane and killed herself just a few months after she failed her initial carrier qualification and the Clintons told the Navy they better qualify her or else. The Navy was sworn to secrecy after initial findings blamed the accident on unidentified mechanical problems but the word got out. The Navy called it the most out of control approach to a carrier that they ever saw. Hultgren's navigator ejected but she pulled it too late and ejected into the water while the plane was upside down.

 

[Mr. H.]

Poor leadership from the top equals lax training standards and fatal accidents. Pushing sub-standard pilots beyond their capabilities for whatever reason is another problem. It brings to mind the first female carrier pilot pushed beyond her capabilities by the Clinton administration. Kara Hultgren crashed her plane and killed herself just a few months after she failed her initial carrier qualification and the Clintons told the Navy they better qualify her or else. The Navy was sworn to secrecy after initial findings blamed the accident on unidentified mechanical problems but the word got out. The Navy called it the most out of control approach to a carrier that they ever saw. Hultgren's navigator ejected but she pulled it too late and ejected into the water while the plane was upside down.

Those Dems and that rascally affirmative action. Sheesh.

 

[whitehall]

I doubt if every member of the Military who dies in an accident unrelated to combat is buried in Arlington with "full military honors". Hultgren died in an accident that her inexperience or negligence caused. You could even say it was unintentional suicide. I'm going to nit-pick about the qualification for internment at Arlington but it is curious that a Navy officer who crashed her multi-million dollar plane received "full military honors" except as payback for being used as a political tool by people who didn't have the courtesy to train her well enough for the job.