Youtuber Fatal Crash

Boris Badenov said:
DC scene was still amazing even in the early aughts when I was in Annapolis. Many ill-advised expeditions down 50 to the Black Cat and 9:30. Somehow survived them all.
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So many nights at 9:30. I was friends with Mark Hurwitz. Seth, his brother owned 9:30. Mark’s stage name was Lips Lackowitz, he was a harp player in a great blues band.

DC had some great blues bands.

Ever go to the Fish Market in Old Town Alexandria?

I lives on a sailboat in Annapolis at the yacht club.
 
In this case, the pilot-in-command wasn't adequately trained in the operation of the Autopilot...Among some other basic airmanship deficiencies.
 
Report came out today. The cause was pretty obvious, she was deficient in her stick and rudder skills and depended on automation way too much - automation that she didn't seem to understand how to operate. She had been warned by her instructor that the Debonair was way too much aircraft for her. It also took her 190 hours before she got her PPL.

Interestingly, she had a number of anti-anxiety meds in her system, including one that would have prevented her from getting any sort of medical. Buspirone, Propanolol, Trazodone and Xanax. She lied at her med exams and claimed she didn't have any pre-existing conditions and didn't report the meds.

Having some experience with anxiety and meds myself, that's a pretty hefty dosage of meds she was on. The Xanax and Trazodone could both cause impairment. I'd be curious how "foggy" that made her feel. You definitely wouldn't want be flying an aircraft like that.

The data card in her camera didn't survive the crash, so they didn't have any footage of what might have happened in the cockpit. They reached vertical speeds of -10k ft/min, so there wasn't much left of the airplane or the occupants. They couldn't locate her heart or her brain for the autopsy.
 
It would be interesting to have a one-dimensional 0-10 score for this kind of pharmaceutical use on the spectrum of "How much should the FAA Aeromedical Division actually intervene?"

Like, both the pilat whose nutty parents put them on ADHD meds when they were 10 for six months (nearly a "1" in my system) and any random male from the Kennedy clan (around an "8") would both get hassled away from flying.

I wonder where this YouTuber's drug use would rank, grading on a curve. Seems relatively extreme, especially for someone who has been trained and certificated to know better.
 
Cherokee_Cruiser said:
And guess what. Property certificated and qualified.
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Sometimes I think you don't actually exist, you're just login credentials scribbled on the bathroom wall in a pilot lounge where it's written "LOGON AND TROLL" and you're basically 15 to 20 different people logging in while they're taking a poop because, as we've seen, you have the memory of a gold fish because you don't now what the previous guy wrote.
 
derg said:
Sometimes I think you don't actually exist, you're just login credentials scribbled on the bathroom wall in a pilot lounge where it's written "LOGON AND TROLL" and you're basically 15 to 20 different people logging in while they're taking a poop because, as we've seen, you have the memory of a gold fish because you don't now what the previous guy wrote.
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On the other hand, a very relevant topic considering the conversation in the other thread. Here, you can have 190 hrs before getting a pilot license, and then still continue to struggle - badly. Hence the commentary on the whole properly certificated and qualified. When you’re allowed unlimited hours and unlimited training and checkrides, anyone can get a license one day. Assuming they have the money and the time.
 
Pilot Fighter said:
So many nights at 9:30. I was friends with Mark Hurwitz. Seth, his brother owned 9:30. Mark’s stage name was Lips Lackowitz, he was a harp player in a great blues band.

DC had some great blues bands.

Ever go to the Fish Market in Old Town Alexandria?

I lives on a sailboat in Annapolis at the yacht club.
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Oof just saw this. I live a mile away from Fish Market.
 
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