Originally Posted by
ignorantAndroid
But they did have iPads with ForeFlight and ADS-B receivers. That doesn't accomplish much if you don't look at it. Perhaps if traffic data were on a screen built into the panel they would've paid more attention to it. Simply having the iPad audio piped into their headsets might have prevented the accident. As it was, they couldn't hear the aural traffic alert from ForeFlight.
Hmm, I vaguely remembered that, but then attributed my memory to the LGA ARFF crew having a tablet, without looking it up. So MechEngr's hypothetical ("Had both the accident aircraft had ADS-B In installed and been using ADS-B Out there would not be this discussion today.") is an actuality that's contradicted by reality.
Originally Posted by
Bergerie1
If you are flying visually at night, at low level, the last thing you would want to do is to look down at an iPad or similar device, ATC Watcher is right.
There were 3 crew on that heli.
It's about procedures, then, in that case.
And not putting heli routes at low level.