In The Shadow Of Mt Hollywood

' After the NTSB press conference Saturday afternoon, in which it was announced that the regional jet's altitude was 325 feet at the time of the collision when the helicopter should have been no higher than 200 feet -- and a faction of the NTSB investigators didn't want this released -- while the Army revealed the identity of the pilot almost concurrently, we've learned nothing more. Somewhat belatedly, Juan Browne posted an update late yesterday that does little other than summarize what we knew Saturdday afternoon. At 2:20, he estasblishes that this was a check flight for Cpt Lobach, and the check pilot was Chief Warrant Officer 2 Eaves. The point neither he nor anyone else has made on this is that Cpt Lobach inarguably failed her check flight. He establishes that a total flight time for an Army helicopter pilot at this stage of her career of 450 hours is "about normal", although this would be very low for a fixed-wing pilot. He says, "the Army ha...