Originally Posted by
SASless
At this point....without an official determination of what hellcopter flying skills experience, training, or knowledge the "Passenger Pilot" had at the time of the Accident....and without any information of "incapacitation" being an issue at all..... I would suggest we have not reached any level of being able to make an "assumption" and must limit the qualification of any such suggestion as being purely baseless pontification.
No, I don‘t agree with that. Earlier in this thread there was information offered by colleagues of the deceased as to the skill and knowledge level in the cockpit, from which reasonable conjecture can be made as to as to how the occupant of the other seat might have reacted in the event of incapacitation. But to be clear, my position was not that I thought incapacitation likely. I was disagreeing with that.