Jester2138 Posted September 11, 2014 Report Share Posted September 11, 2014 http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-09-10/u-s-army-choppers-land-in-polish-fields-to-seek-guidance.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Velocity173 Posted September 11, 2014 Report Share Posted September 11, 2014 Don't think they were "seeking guidance" though. An entire flight lost is highly unlikely. Just ran into a wall and couldn't go any further. It happens. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A-aron Posted September 11, 2014 Report Share Posted September 11, 2014 LOLOL The army times has it as poor visibility Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jester2138 Posted September 11, 2014 Author Report Share Posted September 11, 2014 Don't think they were "seeking guidance" though. An entire flight lost is highly unlikely. Just ran into a wall and couldn't go any further. It happens. I thought it was weird. Wouldn't those choppers have GPS? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lindsey Posted September 11, 2014 Report Share Posted September 11, 2014  I thought it was weird. Wouldn't those choppers have GPS? Weather can change faster than you can blink. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A-aron Posted September 11, 2014 Report Share Posted September 11, 2014 Some of these news articles are making me laugh pretty hard. I saw one where people were freaking out that an Apache landed on a helipad in Dallas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
electron_si Posted September 11, 2014 Report Share Posted September 11, 2014 Yeah the article was totally misleading. It says they asked for guidance but at the bottom it said they landed due to weather. There could have been many factors that contributed, a few of the aircraft could have been circle red X'd from IMC or icing, and the weather might have been bad at their destination. Landing on the ground is usually going to be safer than a 6 ship IMC breakup, although we practice it regularly. The comments are horrible, too. Clearly people that know nothing about aviation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akscott60 Posted September 11, 2014 Report Share Posted September 11, 2014 Hmm, land in a safe field, or go half ass mixed multiship IIMC into a perhaps low level of f*cking icing. My PC ass says land and call the boss. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flying Pig Posted September 11, 2014 Report Share Posted September 11, 2014 The best comment written after the article goes to: "Thank God they were Americans. -Eurpoeans have been saying that since 1917" 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StockTrader Posted September 11, 2014 Report Share Posted September 11, 2014 The apache landing in Dallas had me shaking my head at the writing. "Military style helicopter". No hunny, that was MILITARY. There are no civilians rolling around in an apache unless you count that demo team I think. Maybe I'm wrong and there is a civilian version of the apache but the 30mm is only semi auto? 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jester2138 Posted September 11, 2014 Author Report Share Posted September 11, 2014 Â Weather can change faster than you can blink.I meant it was odd that they would need to ask where they were, not that they would wait out bad weather. I've done enough sailing to know how fast the weather can change without warning. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flying Pig Posted September 12, 2014 Report Share Posted September 12, 2014 Not really.... long xctry, unfamiliar area. A pilot simply asking a local "Hey, what do they call this place?" suddenly gets interpreted as "these guys had no idea where they were." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BM1 Posted September 12, 2014 Report Share Posted September 12, 2014 Yea, that was just a case of friendly conversation with locals and you don't speak the language, and they might not speak much english. Ask a few people what the name of the village is, or the right way to pronounce it, and it could easily be misconstrued as you don't know where you are when you're really just making small talk. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Creep0321 Posted September 12, 2014 Report Share Posted September 12, 2014 Yea I'm sure asking a local to confirm a grid wouldn't be much help... haha. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
d10 Posted September 12, 2014 Report Share Posted September 12, 2014 just making small talk. Â Or one of the pilots wanted to know how to caption the selfie they were about to post to Instagram and since they were flying solely off GPS without following along on their maps they wanted to get the correct name. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob1237051 Posted September 20, 2014 Report Share Posted September 20, 2014 Hah. I know those guys. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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