P-56 Busted Airspace

[zawillif]

I'm not one to Monday morning quarterback--at least I really try not to--but twice!?? How the F--does anyone know the what exactly happened?

 

[Brasilia Pup]

Makes you wonder why there is not a SID out of DCA. Following the river (which is hidden under a canopy of trees for about a mile) is not exactly good technique when you are trying to avoid a no-fly zone.

 

[Data]

Great, now that we got the runway heading and stall thing down they're going to add a new event for PCs, something along the line of "Prohibited space, crosschecked."

 

[blesko]

Same way we had RNAV OTG issues and same way we had screwed up the OHare 5 with the 250kt airspeed limitation and missing the 5 and 8 DME altitude crossing restrictions. Complacency. The lowest common denominator wins again.

 

[Abernathy]

Captain was busy affixing his "Don't Tread on Me" sticker to his flight bag. Was an ASA flight, right?

 

[JettBoii]

That's why we use the fix page...to draw the radial....so you can follow it....etc etc

 

[zawillif]

Makes you wonder why there is not a SID out of DCA. Following the river (which is hidden under a canopy of trees for about a mile) is not exactly good technique when you are trying to avoid a no-fly zone.

Yeah but it's not that difficult. You can see the Capitol right in front of your face, plus the Jepps, plus the permanent yellow sign by the runway that says "AVOID P-56". And you can see the river too. I can't believe that both pilots missed this both times. This is one instance where I'd actually grab the controls and turn the plane if I had to.

 

[JumpersAway]

How many of the 4 pilots were senior to me??????

 

[Oakum_Boy]

FOUR??? Probably the guys you always thought wer gonna screw something up but didn't say anything to keep the peace. Probably had the darn Jepp book closed on top of the O2 mask as per usual. Ah, heck, this thing practically flies itself! They should just shoot down the next one, that way we can see who the morons are.

 

[LearLove]

Makes you wonder why there is not a SID out of DCA. Following the river (which is hidden under a canopy of trees for about a mile) is not exactly good technique when you are trying to avoid a no-fly zone.

What? - among other landmarks you can clearly see the river both taking off Rwy01 and landing 19. Intercept the 328 DCA radial works just fine also.