Leavitt was repeatedly asked about the spending freeze, and said payments for Social Security, Medicare and food stamps would not be affected. However, she was criticized for not saying what would happen to nonprofit programs like Meals on Wheels.
‘It’s a classic spinmeister tactic saying I answered that when you haven’t answered it and apparently can’t answer it right away,’ Dale said on CNN News Central.
Sounds like some kind of Misogynistic personal attack against a Conservative woman who is just doing her job. CNN should be banned from White House Press Room…
Lots of posts on X and conservative media sites this morning about the FAA’s policy, since 2013, of screening applicants for race and sex before competency and qualifications. And the same for airlines hiring pilots; American, United, Southwest, and Alaska have been sued for discrimination.
However, there’s no word yet on who were the pilots of the AA regional jet and the Blackhawk, or why on earth the Blackhawk was in the landing path of commercial airliners at Reagan. Transportation Sec. Duffy said that the Blackhawk was aware of the commercial plane; he didn’t say whether the passenger jet was aware of the helicopter. It will take a while for information to emerge.
Near-collisions have been much more frequent in recent years, and these statistics are why I’ve been reluctant to fly. I know statistically it’s still far safer to fly than to drive distances, but …
RIP to all those killed, and may God comfort their families.
Thanks to DEI, more than 3,000 top-performing, motivated applicants who applied as air traffic controllers to the FAA lost out because they weren’t the right race.
A few minutes before the jet was to land, air traffic controllers asked American Airlines Flight 5342 if it could do so on a shorter runway, and the pilots agreed. Controllers cleared the jet to land and flight tracking sites showed the plane adjust its approach to the new runway.
Less than 30 seconds before the crash, an air traffic controller asked a helicopter if it had the arriving plane in sight. The controller made another radio call to the helicopter moments later, saying “PAT 25 pass behind the CRJ” — apparently telling the copter to wait for the Bombardier CRJ-701 twin-engine jet to pass. There was no reply. Seconds after that, the aircraft collided.
At this point it’s hard to tell if this was an air traffic control screwup, or if there was a problem with the communications on the helicopter, or the helicopter’s pilot was indisposed in some way.
My first thought is that the helo was warned of the CRJ and acknowledged but then ran right into it…how did they miss it? There were 3 crew, I assume the trainee was in the right seat, instructor in left, and not sure about the third; that’s 3 sets of eyes. Also, why did ATC allow such close operations at such low altitudes? Lots of questions at this point, few answers. I’m not ready to blame DEI at this point. To me, it looks like the CRJ crew was doing what they were supposed to do and the helo is at fault. I may be wrong.
I’m not a pilot or aviation expert and I know next to nothing about the logistics of the air traffic control of a large commercial airport. All that said, on the surface it sure seems dangerous to have a helicopter flying so near an active runway. But maybe it’s routine to have helicopters passing over runways in such a way? After all, even though obviously helicopters don’t need runways to take off and land, I imagine they still may have to traverse across runways from time to time.
I’d like to know the helicopter pilot’s name. I think you know why.
I guess I assumed this crash happened over the runway, but it happened over the Potomac as the plane was approaching the runway. So you have a military helicopter that was on oestensibly a training flight that intersected with a commercial airway. I suspect that this was a routine thing that was perhaps part of the training, but who knows? Conditions have been reported to be “clear” in the press, although it was night.
“I’d like to know the helicopter pilot’s name. I think you know why.”
matthew49, training flight which means all 3 crew members were qualified pilots and the instructor highly qualified. Don’t start throwing the DEI card until we have more information.
Nonapod. Watch the video I linked.
I agree it’s too early to throw the DEI card on the table. We need facts. It will take a while.
That said, the change beginning in 2013 to look at race and sex first and qualifications second must be changed. Trump’s executive order for the government, and Hegseth’s order for the military, should reverse that practice if people follow leadership orders. However, it would take time to review all personnel for competence testing.
I was surprised to learn there is a VFR corridor so close to a major airport, but apparently in this case there is for helicopters flying down the Potomac. However, they are supposed to stay below an altitude of 200 ft. Word is the collision was at an altitude of 350-375 ft.
So it does look like an error by the helicopter pilot.
It may not be the ATC that was the problem here. However, my niece’s son-in-law was in Air Traffic Control training in Oklahoma City a few years ago. He’s in his 20s, has a pilot’s license, and was in his last week of training when he was expelled for no apparent reason. His adamant belief is that he was booted because of DEI quotas. He and his wife, my grand niece, now have two beautiful, wonderful, adorable babies. So it probably worked out for the best. But still…
Speaking of airports. I was wondering why more firefighting aircraft have not been thrown at the LA fires. I heard one guy say they had 18 at one point. Given that they have to refuel, etc, it’s not 18 up in the air at once. I have wondered, given a major American city was being burned, why not close LAX to commercial traffic and throw everything at those fires? I fear many California leaders have been more focused on ” rebuilding” with federal money and engineering a new city than getting those fires out.
all 3 crew members were qualified pilots
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Have they redefined ‘qualified’ in the last dozen years? Did they do so consequent to a decree of a federal judge?
and was in his last week of training when he was expelled for no apparent reason.
==
They gave him no explanation at all?
Good video link by physicsguy. Juan Brown. I’m slightly familiar with his other such videos.
I figured TCAS might be useless in this situation. True, apparently. Though Juan does suggest that there is a TCAS instrumentation indicator displayed for nearby aircraft. That only helps if someone is looking at the instrument. If the pilot is operating VFR, then he’s looking out the windows. But the copilot could be scanning instruments.
Nonapod wrote “Thanks to DEI, more than 3,000 top-performing, motivated applicants who applied as air traffic controllers to the FAA lost out because they weren’t the right race.”
Yes, the shortage is real. It may have nothing to do with THIS crash, but it is a very real nationwide problem.
Austin’s international airport has problems in this regard. A few weeks back, several flights had to be canceled because a shift was too short of air traffic controllers.
As I recall: 18 came in, which was a handful short. But worse: the head guy — a “monitor” or supervisor of the others — was not there.
Also: That airport is supposed to have around 50 controllers on staff, but has HALF that.
DEI was implicated. But it is Austin, so … I never saw a followup with more news.
(NOTE: ref – “Good video link by physicsguy” @ 10:38 am – yes, excellent!)
OK…offline DeepSeek was unimpressive, for me.
Gave up until today, and gave signing up & login in another shot. It Worked!
Looks impressive to me…maybe faster than the others I test…? Calls Claude:
Primarily a conversational AI designed for natural language understanding and generation.
Ideal for customer support, content creation, education, and personal assistance.
That’s a very brief version. Called ChatGPT:
Primarily a conversational AI, ChatGPT excels in generating human-like text, answering questions, providing explanations, and assisting with creative tasks like writing, coding, and brainstorming.
Used in customer support, content creation, education, programming assistance, and personal productivity tools.
That’s also a very brief version.
DeepSeek thinks of itself as:
Primarily used for enterprise solutions, such as improving search functionality, enhancing recommendation algorithms, and analyzing large datasets.
Applied in sectors like e-commerce, advertising, and financial services to drive efficiency and personalization.
• Strengths: Expertise in big data, search optimization, and recommendation systems.
• Weaknesses: Less focus on conversational AI and ethical safeguards compared to Claude AI.
Designed for data analysis and search, DeepSeek specializes in extracting insights from large datasets, optimizing search algorithms, and providing actionable intelligence for businesses.
Target Audience – Enterprises and organizations requiring advanced data analysis and business intelligence tools.
“improving search functionality” is a big plus for me right now – since am using AIs as main search engine now…
That’s a snippet version. Will start testing it now along with Grok, Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini, and Perplexity.
I found this too late to edit my comment above, but here’s an update on Austin’s ATC shortage:
Nov. 11, 2024: (Note: this problem has repeated on later dates, too.)
“Doggett has reportedly urged the FAA to address the staffing complications at Austin–Bergstrom before. The representative said 13 controllers were supposed to be on staff Sunday afternoon, but only eight controllers were present, with no supervisors accompanying them.”
… full article: https://simpleflying.com/atc-staffing-shortage-flights-delayed-austin/
…
This airport has had MULTIPLE runway accidents and near-misses, during the last ~ 3 years.
The shortage of ATC’s is certainly a huge nationwide problem.
Like Kate and others have stated, I avoid flying. And though I’ve never been afraid of flying before, I now dread the thought that a need may arise. (Which has been the case since the 2020 COVID air craziness, actually! “Craziness” of both passenger & attendents.)
OK…offline DeepSeek was unimpressive, for me.
Which version did you try? There’s 7 different models available on Ollama and the “lightweight” one is only 1.5 billion parameters and I agree is pretty lackluster in terms of chat, but you can run it with just a laptop CPU.
There’s also 7b, 8b, 14b, 32b, 70b, 671b (the largest). The bigger models probably won’t even run on a regular PC unless you have a pretty beefy Nvidia GPU with a ton of VRAM. In fact even the 70b might not load unless you had one of those absurdly expensive cards like an H100 that has 80GBs of ram. I’ve run LLAMA 3.2-1B (one of Facebook’s models) with an Nvidia RTX4060ti with 16GB on a Linux system and it’s pretty good and relatively fast with that hardware.
Caroline Glick has made her last JNS broadcast for a time to come, announcing she will be taking a position in service to the Israeli state shortly. What job? Caroline says she’ll speak to that soon. Meanwhile, I wish her well in her new endeavors.
Nonapod:
I have 32GB ram in that test computer, and I believe the selections were either 20GB or 43GB – I took the 20GB version…believe it was the 32b. That was on Win11 Pro.
However, when I first tested it, using Fedora Linux – forget what version – but in the terminal it worked quite well, but I couldn’t get Chatbox to install…some Appimage that I couldn’t open in Porteus Linux either.
Have followed your comments on AI, and you obviously know more about it than me. For me, I just didn’t like how that offline was setup on either Linux or Win…I like that browser stuff… 🙂
I almost went with the Nvidia RTX4060ti when I bought the RTX3060ti – it may have been the same price or cheaper, but had my heart set on the 3060 since they first came out…a classic IMHO. Next build I’ll go w/ either the 50 or 60 ti’s when they are out…
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Instead of just reporting the news, CNN resorts to nasty name calling of White House press secretary…
CNN gives Karoline Leavitt nasty new nickname after first White House briefing
Sounds like some kind of Misogynistic personal attack against a Conservative woman who is just doing her job. CNN should be banned from White House Press Room…
Lots of posts on X and conservative media sites this morning about the FAA’s policy, since 2013, of screening applicants for race and sex before competency and qualifications. And the same for airlines hiring pilots; American, United, Southwest, and Alaska have been sued for discrimination.
However, there’s no word yet on who were the pilots of the AA regional jet and the Blackhawk, or why on earth the Blackhawk was in the landing path of commercial airliners at Reagan. Transportation Sec. Duffy said that the Blackhawk was aware of the commercial plane; he didn’t say whether the passenger jet was aware of the helicopter. It will take a while for information to emerge.
Near-collisions have been much more frequent in recent years, and these statistics are why I’ve been reluctant to fly. I know statistically it’s still far safer to fly than to drive distances, but …
RIP to all those killed, and may God comfort their families.
From X/Twitter
From AP.
At this point it’s hard to tell if this was an air traffic control screwup, or if there was a problem with the communications on the helicopter, or the helicopter’s pilot was indisposed in some way.
Juan has an immediate first analysis:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouDAnO8eMf8
My first thought is that the helo was warned of the CRJ and acknowledged but then ran right into it…how did they miss it? There were 3 crew, I assume the trainee was in the right seat, instructor in left, and not sure about the third; that’s 3 sets of eyes. Also, why did ATC allow such close operations at such low altitudes? Lots of questions at this point, few answers. I’m not ready to blame DEI at this point. To me, it looks like the CRJ crew was doing what they were supposed to do and the helo is at fault. I may be wrong.
I’m not a pilot or aviation expert and I know next to nothing about the logistics of the air traffic control of a large commercial airport. All that said, on the surface it sure seems dangerous to have a helicopter flying so near an active runway. But maybe it’s routine to have helicopters passing over runways in such a way? After all, even though obviously helicopters don’t need runways to take off and land, I imagine they still may have to traverse across runways from time to time.
I’d like to know the helicopter pilot’s name. I think you know why.
I guess I assumed this crash happened over the runway, but it happened over the Potomac as the plane was approaching the runway. So you have a military helicopter that was on oestensibly a training flight that intersected with a commercial airway. I suspect that this was a routine thing that was perhaps part of the training, but who knows? Conditions have been reported to be “clear” in the press, although it was night.
“I’d like to know the helicopter pilot’s name. I think you know why.”
matthew49, training flight which means all 3 crew members were qualified pilots and the instructor highly qualified. Don’t start throwing the DEI card until we have more information.
Nonapod. Watch the video I linked.
I agree it’s too early to throw the DEI card on the table. We need facts. It will take a while.
That said, the change beginning in 2013 to look at race and sex first and qualifications second must be changed. Trump’s executive order for the government, and Hegseth’s order for the military, should reverse that practice if people follow leadership orders. However, it would take time to review all personnel for competence testing.
I was surprised to learn there is a VFR corridor so close to a major airport, but apparently in this case there is for helicopters flying down the Potomac. However, they are supposed to stay below an altitude of 200 ft. Word is the collision was at an altitude of 350-375 ft.
So it does look like an error by the helicopter pilot.
It may not be the ATC that was the problem here. However, my niece’s son-in-law was in Air Traffic Control training in Oklahoma City a few years ago. He’s in his 20s, has a pilot’s license, and was in his last week of training when he was expelled for no apparent reason. His adamant belief is that he was booted because of DEI quotas. He and his wife, my grand niece, now have two beautiful, wonderful, adorable babies. So it probably worked out for the best. But still…
Speaking of airports. I was wondering why more firefighting aircraft have not been thrown at the LA fires. I heard one guy say they had 18 at one point. Given that they have to refuel, etc, it’s not 18 up in the air at once. I have wondered, given a major American city was being burned, why not close LAX to commercial traffic and throw everything at those fires? I fear many California leaders have been more focused on ” rebuilding” with federal money and engineering a new city than getting those fires out.
all 3 crew members were qualified pilots
==
Have they redefined ‘qualified’ in the last dozen years? Did they do so consequent to a decree of a federal judge?
and was in his last week of training when he was expelled for no apparent reason.
==
They gave him no explanation at all?
Good video link by physicsguy. Juan Brown. I’m slightly familiar with his other such videos.
I figured TCAS might be useless in this situation. True, apparently. Though Juan does suggest that there is a TCAS instrumentation indicator displayed for nearby aircraft. That only helps if someone is looking at the instrument. If the pilot is operating VFR, then he’s looking out the windows. But the copilot could be scanning instruments.
Nonapod wrote “Thanks to DEI, more than 3,000 top-performing, motivated applicants who applied as air traffic controllers to the FAA lost out because they weren’t the right race.”
Yes, the shortage is real. It may have nothing to do with THIS crash, but it is a very real nationwide problem.
Austin’s international airport has problems in this regard. A few weeks back, several flights had to be canceled because a shift was too short of air traffic controllers.
As I recall: 18 came in, which was a handful short. But worse: the head guy — a “monitor” or supervisor of the others — was not there.
Also: That airport is supposed to have around 50 controllers on staff, but has HALF that.
DEI was implicated. But it is Austin, so … I never saw a followup with more news.
(NOTE: ref – “Good video link by physicsguy” @ 10:38 am – yes, excellent!)
OK…offline DeepSeek was unimpressive, for me.
Gave up until today, and gave signing up & login in another shot. It Worked!
Looks impressive to me…maybe faster than the others I test…? Calls Claude:
That’s a very brief version. Called ChatGPT:
That’s also a very brief version.
DeepSeek thinks of itself as:
“improving search functionality” is a big plus for me right now – since am using AIs as main search engine now…
That’s a snippet version. Will start testing it now along with Grok, Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini, and Perplexity.
I found this too late to edit my comment above, but here’s an update on Austin’s ATC shortage:
Nov. 11, 2024: (Note: this problem has repeated on later dates, too.)
“Doggett has reportedly urged the FAA to address the staffing complications at Austin–Bergstrom before. The representative said 13 controllers were supposed to be on staff Sunday afternoon, but only eight controllers were present, with no supervisors accompanying them.”
… full article:
https://simpleflying.com/atc-staffing-shortage-flights-delayed-austin/
…
This airport has had MULTIPLE runway accidents and near-misses, during the last ~ 3 years.
The shortage of ATC’s is certainly a huge nationwide problem.
Like Kate and others have stated, I avoid flying. And though I’ve never been afraid of flying before, I now dread the thought that a need may arise. (Which has been the case since the 2020 COVID air craziness, actually! “Craziness” of both passenger & attendents.)
Which version did you try? There’s 7 different models available on Ollama and the “lightweight” one is only 1.5 billion parameters and I agree is pretty lackluster in terms of chat, but you can run it with just a laptop CPU.
There’s also 7b, 8b, 14b, 32b, 70b, 671b (the largest). The bigger models probably won’t even run on a regular PC unless you have a pretty beefy Nvidia GPU with a ton of VRAM. In fact even the 70b might not load unless you had one of those absurdly expensive cards like an H100 that has 80GBs of ram. I’ve run LLAMA 3.2-1B (one of Facebook’s models) with an Nvidia RTX4060ti with 16GB on a Linux system and it’s pretty good and relatively fast with that hardware.
Caroline Glick has made her last JNS broadcast for a time to come, announcing she will be taking a position in service to the Israeli state shortly. What job? Caroline says she’ll speak to that soon. Meanwhile, I wish her well in her new endeavors.
Nonapod:
I have 32GB ram in that test computer, and I believe the selections were either 20GB or 43GB – I took the 20GB version…believe it was the 32b. That was on Win11 Pro.
However, when I first tested it, using Fedora Linux – forget what version – but in the terminal it worked quite well, but I couldn’t get Chatbox to install…some Appimage that I couldn’t open in Porteus Linux either.
Have followed your comments on AI, and you obviously know more about it than me. For me, I just didn’t like how that offline was setup on either Linux or Win…I like that browser stuff… 🙂
I almost went with the Nvidia RTX4060ti when I bought the RTX3060ti – it may have been the same price or cheaper, but had my heart set on the 3060 since they first came out…a classic IMHO. Next build I’ll go w/ either the 50 or 60 ti’s when they are out…