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I guessing Sikorsky won’t be sending anyone to investigate that crash.
Neither NTSB nor USAF accidents board
"We investigated and determined that they key to reducing the number of taliban pilots is to permit the taliban to pilot."
When people were freaking out about the Taliban stealing US choppers six months ago I thought to myself "sounds like a problem that will sort itself out"
Either they'll crash them all or they'll just break cause they've got no idea how to maintain them lmao
Same with most of the equipment left there. Outside of portable missile systems like stingers or javelins that one time use and user friendly, most high tech equipment requires extensive training from experienced trainers to use it effectively and a whole other set of training to maintain it. I would expect they are going to have a lot of trouble finding parts for vehicle repairs too.
I kind of agree. I mean maybe these people are smart, but even if they have all the equipment in the world, they are still extremly uneducated and the equipment is quite complex (hence why its important to train pilots etc.).
My mindset with the taliban is: They showed insane resillience vs the combined forces of the US and other cou tries, but they are still random ass cave dwellers.
Turban in the turbine you say?
It probably would of been cheaper to just send them a few thousand black hawks over there and let them die flying than invade.
Speaking of being cheaper:
This is essentially what the US Government is doing with all the weapons donations to Ukraine. For real. The ammunition was nearing its "use by" date, which meant that the military was going to have to spend money to destroy it. Donating it to Ukraine gave Ukraine the ammo they desperately needed, that had been designed to counter Russian (Soviet era) weapons and equipment, that even with transport and training them how to use it was cheaper than destroying it.
*would have
Just add a red button and don't put it in any manual. Big bada boom
“The biggest factor being Black Hawk helicopters use a different control scheme compared to Magic Carpets”
Sheikh Ali Hamadaaani flying a blackhawwwk
They went to a whole new world
"pilots" xd
The US wasn't lying when they said they didn't leave behind anything in "operational condition". An unmaintainable chopper that some idiot will still try to use is just a way to kill someone at really long range.
I JACK IT TO TRANNY PORN
Hey Jim, we are leaving!
"One sec, I'm flipping these gyro wires.."
+50 assist +50 assist (do black hawks need pilots to fly?)
I'd love an u/Admiral_Cloudberg breakdown for this incident.
"The pilot was a noted tinsmith and carpetmaker in his district, but his dream was to fly helicopters. He had five hours of experience on a mobile app flight simulator. In summer 2022 he managed to convinced a local commander to let him give it a go."
Mobile app flight simulator?
Did it just have touchscreen buttons for up, down, left, right, forward, reverse?
There's a decent one that I have. It uses motion controls like tilt phone forward and it goes down type thing. It's fairly good but 35 dollars without play pass if you have an android.
Probably would be the shortest Admiral Cloudberg post ever written.
18 slides at least
Helicopter go brr. Pilot go durr. Helicopter go boom.
We should tell them helicopters work better with more taliban on board
“Pilots”
I somewhat understand a non-skilled pilot trying their luck with a fixed-wing airplane. At least flying that around, once you're off the ground, is nice and intuitive. Landing is the part where you really want to know what you're doing.
With helicopters the intuitive part is fucking nothing
Not even ducking when you get out is intuitive. You'd think "not sticking your head into a cross between a ceiling fan and a blender" would be automatic.
I still remeber a picture that floated around reddit a year or two ago of some girl jumping out of the side of a helicopter with the blades still spinning and the look of horror on the pilot/co pilots face at seeing this.
https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/9nykcx/the_look_on_this_pilots_face_as_his_passenger/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share
Yeah you're not able to jump high enough to even come close to those blades.
The tail rotor, though, is the real danger.
Found it?
Highly exoerienced.
In GTA 5
Oh shit, the controls are inverted! AHHHHHHHHH-
They forgot to do that thing like in “Independence Day” where Will Smith flips over the direction placard
I lost this comment this morning, and searched through the day to find it again, and upvote lol.
give me a second to remap the bindings!
Stop shooting, you dicks!
(The comma is important here).
Chances are they were trained with ex-Soviet aircraft.
Apparently you can't just hop in a US helo.
Getting if of the ground would be the hard part. Start up sequence on a modern aircraft is fucking complicated. But if they were trained pilots, actually flying the thing shouldn't be that hard, at least when sticking to some basic and safe maneuvers.
My understanding is that helicopters are sort of akin to learning to ride a bike. The hovering and vertical maneuvers take some learning with how to coordinate the cyclic, rudder, and throttle, but eventually it "clicks." You could probably do all the research and consumer-level sim training you want, but practically no one could hop in a chopper and successfully pilot it their first time.
My best friend is a Blackhawk pilot. I asked him about this comment, and he said and I quote:
“If someone took off for you, and you had a LOT of commercial flight sim practice…I think you could probably keep it flying long enough to die screaming in terror at the death you had 30 seconds to see coming, instead of fucking up and dying in 5 seconds before you even knew what was going on.”
As I understand it, if you've flown any aircraft since the invention of a bi-plane, you can just intuit it.
The Taliban is well known for being a technological meritocracy. If this wasn't an equipment failure, I'd bet you a dollar that when it came time to fly, two self-important idiots got in the cockpit and the only person with real experience had to tell them how to fly from the back seat, and they ignored him, like a scene from The Dictator.
I think you left out a 'not' there.
The most qualified pilots with over 4 hours of piloting time playing GTA in first person.
Just like Al Qaeda pilots heading to New York, they never had to learn how to land.
Maybe this was a successful training flight
And you make that joke today… well played.