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4th shot of Pfizer (third booster) 10/22, shingles vaccine in other arm the same time, flu shot a week later, got the Rona less than two weeks later after a concert 10/29. A woman I was with at the concert also got it and a woman I had dinner with Monday night, two days later after which I first...

It depends how credible the witness on the ground is about a casual observation. Can he really say for certain that the helicopter was not climbing?

Right, so he was maybe 1400 or 1500 reporting 3 miles out, descending to pattern altitude with instructions from the tower to remain at his altitude undtil turning base. What am I missing?

Yes, exactly! It really did work so much better before the tower.

How is 11 or 1200 AGL not a proper altitude? He wasn't in the pattern yet and the tower told him to maintain his altitude until base (whatever that might be-she didn't say).

Uh yeah, well they were all talking on the radio so.. Just saying, before the tower, we talked to each other.

FDK routinely has a lot more traffic than that on weekends. I believe the tower does make some people feel a false sense of security. Also, where as before the tower, pilots were talking to each other a lot more, giving and verifying position reports, now it is all cycled through the...

Greg, are you OK? Do you need anyone to send help? Did you mean to post this in the texting while driving thead?

Bad idea. When you decide to pull the shoot, you want it out now, not three seconds later.

OK, so should he have deviated, left, right, up, or down to give ROW to something he doesn't see?

I hope Advanced Helicopters survives as a business or it won't matter. They are the best group of people I've ever dealt with at Frederick and they have a thriving business.

Huh? I'm so confused. He was supposed to give ROW to something he didn't see? How?

That's my point. She just brought him in on the most expeditious route as do most towers.

It's the same at Frederick for RWs 05-23 Fixed wing stays to the east, or right downwind 05, left 23 and the helicopters do their operations on the grass and taxiways on the other side of the runway. For runways 12-30, most all of the airport is located on the south side of the runway and...

Where does this 994 figure come from?

OK but how do we know who belongs to that voice we heard on the radio?

When was it positively determined that the Cirrus passenger is the voice on the radio? I missed that. Are their any accounts of the interview with the survivors?

Clearly, a helicopter is a lot more maneuverable.

A mile out at pattern altitude with a good wind favoring 30 and no way to you make it, power off abeam the numbers.

Tom, that is my point exactly. It's wrong to assume that anyone remains at pattern altitude, once in the pattern. The controller told him to remain at his altitude but I didn't hear where that altitude was established, or any number given. It's a vague instruction at best.