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So, for example, based on the difficulty in picking out the correct aircraft from the inbound stream, one of the many questions I've been asking myself is "Why were the PAT25 crew so willing to say they had the CRJ in sight (twice they said that) in that environment?". Had that become "normalised" on the Sqdn, or were the risks of miss-IDing a/c not being adequately highlighted in Local Orders, particularly given the geometry of that specific set-up? ...
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This raises the question of what fraction of helicopter crews in that situation asked for visual separation. And how often did ATC grant it? According to posts above sometimes helicopters were held at Hains Point so apparently visual separation wasn't universal.