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  • Investigators say the collision occurred at an altitude of 278 feet — even though the Army helicopter shouldn’t have been flying above 200 feet on that portion of the route. NTSB Chairwoman Jennifer Homendy has previously said the Black Hawk pilots might not have been aware of how high they were because their barometric altimeter may have been displaying the wrong altitude. And Army representatives said this week that it wasn’t unusual for barometric altimeters to be off by that much.

    “In my experience, a difference of 80 feet or so between the radar altitude and the barometric altitude would not be cause for alarm," U.S. Army Chief Warrant Officer Kylene Lewis told investigators.

    Radar altimeters measure the distance between an aircraft and the ground, while barometric altimeters use air pressure to estimate altitude.

    NTSB member J. Todd Inman pressed others from the Army and from Sikorsky Aircraft, which manufactures Black Hawk helicopters, about why the barometric altimeters used weren’t more accurate, especially since Army helicopters sometimes pass near civilian flights.

    “You just told me, I believe, all of the equipment in this manufacturing process is within the tolerances for safety. How much is that tolerance?" Inman asked. “I think it should be zero.”

    The military representatives said at the hearing that the Army is considering changes to the flight manual to let pilots know about discrepancies with altitude readings.

    Before the accident, FAA staff had raised concerns about the Army helicopter route’s proximity to commercial flights landing at the airport. The 12th Aviation Battalion’s Bravo Company, which operates out of Virginia’s Fort Belvoir, ran training missions in the area related to priority air transport and continuity-of-government operations.

    Allen, the former DCA tower operations manager, said a working group at the airport had considered the possibility of moving what was known as Route 4 or even eliminating part of it. “And both of those options we were told we were unable to do due to continuity of government operations or security,” Allen said.

    During the hearings, Homendy blasted the FAA for not acting on the safety concerns of its employees. “Are you kidding me? Sixty-seven people are dead! How do you explain that? Our bureaucratic process?” she said. “Fix it. Do better.”





  • Anecdotally, it’s both. Most of the people I talked to would be very pro Republican but then talk about how they didn’t understand why we didn’t make weed legal or help people in poverty* or whatever the ballot initiative was.

    *aid or minimum wage and stuff was often times very dependent on phrasing. They liked the ideas but only if they thought of people they liked. If you let them run long enough they’d eventually start talking about “druggies” or something like that to justify why $7.25 was where they’d rather leave the minimum wage for example. Or start riffing on how McDonald’s workers shouldn’t make as much as they did typing at a computer doing “real work”















  • It looks like the Shelly device initiates contact with home assistant you may be able to just tell it to talk to the same api endpoint (following is for 2nd gen devices):

    In this case, navigate to the local IP address of your Shelly device, Settings >> Connectivity >> Outbound WebSocket and check the box Enable Outbound WebSocket, under server enter the following address:

    ws:// + Home_Assistant_local_ip_address:Port + /api/shelly/ws (for example: ws://192.168.1.100:8123/api/shelly/ws), click Apply to save the settings. In case your installation is set up to use SSL encryption (HTTPS with certificate), an additional s needs to be added to the WebSocket protocol, too, so that it reads wss:// (for example: wss://192.168.1.100:8123/api/shelly/ws).

    Assuming you are buying a new unit I’d try following that guide after backing up and seeing if it updates normally. The first gen devices used a different protocol, full instructions for both can be found here.