"John T" wrote in message news:
"Happy Dog" wrote in message
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A frigging *radio* would have made sense.
...
But you probably would have remembered to try 121.5.

You may be unaware of a couple key facts. Both aircraft had functioning
radios and the initial instruction from the Blackhawk was to tune to
121.5. However, there was other traffic (I've never understood exactly
what, but the consensus is it was an ELT) on that frequency that prevented
its use. More valuable time was lost trying to figure out a) a new
frequency and b) how to communicate that to the errant 150.

Crap. Student pilots can figure this out. The radcio doesn't work on
121.5, try another frequency. This brought the who intercept procedure
down? Get a grip!

Homeland insecurity at its best. Imagine if they'd killed these
guys. Nah. They're not *that* stupid...

Yeah, it's real stupid to risk getting shot by not knowing where you are.
DoD and DHS claim to have learned valuable lessons, but I can only hope
other pilots have learned there is an ADIZ around here with special rules
and special penalties.

More rules. More penalties. That's it. Read the ****ing AOPA report.
This was a 6 out of 10 for stupid pilot tricks. There's no risk
commeseurate with the defence effort. m Get it?

Every violation hurts our chances of getting the damned thing dismantled.

As does every twit who goes on record supporting it.


moo