"Under 10,000ft, under 250kts"

Unless the aircraft flight manual states otherwise. I think the F-16
flies 300 KIAS in the traffic pattern. Any Viper drivers out there to
chime in?

On 7/11/2015 11:36 AM, Charlie M. (UH & 002 owner/pilot) wrote:
On Saturday, July 11, 2015 at 11:00:12 AM UTC-4, wrote:
There is much more wrong with the Power Flarm comment.
I have Flarm.
Transponder targets do not provide the information that Flarm targets have.
One has to actually visually search for the transponder target.
At the speeds the F-16 was travelling....Flarm is iffy.
"Under 10,000ft, under 250kts", granted, that's still ~450'/second if you're not moving, even more if you're head on.
I would guess the jet was even slower than 250kts "in the pattern".

While I agree that we should try to learn from this accident, sometimes "crap happens" regardless of how many "roadblocks to crap" we throw up.

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Dan Marotta