Do you remember ?

@swirlie I wouldn’t expect any other kind of reply from you 🙄

@swirlie Oh sure, blame it on him. Blame it on 10,000 years of toxic masculinity. Maybe she thought he was mansplaining.

@Jokersswild
Maybe she thought her instructor would save the ship if she screwed up, but obviously he wasn't paying attention to what she wasn't doing. HE was the pilot in command, not her. If HE was aware of what was going on in that moment, he would have taken control and did something about it.

@swirlie misandric response

@swirlie Well, that is a valid point. I'm not entirely sure how the controls work in the Blackhawk. Did he have the ability to override them? If he did, then as the instructor, he definitely should have taken control.

@Jokersswild last second? Yeah that explains it. She was told multiple times.

@Jokersswild
The Blackhawk is a two-pilot aircraft that is designed to be flown at all times with 2 pilots at the controls, not just one. In addition to that, a crew chief is always present to provide additional situational awareness to the pilots. In their case, they had a total of 6 on board, 3 of which were student pilots taking turns flying with the instructor who was occupying his own pilot's seat at all times.