The U.S. Army is giving its aviation units new navigation devices, starting with the Black Hawk unit involved in January’s deadly midair collision near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (KDCA).
According to a Washington Post report, the Army began distributing the devices in June to help improve pilots’ awareness of other aircraft around them. Some older military aircraft, including variants of the Black Hawk, do not have a centralized system that detects and displays the exact location of other aircraft. Instead, pilots rely on information from devices and instruments integrated through a tablet computer carried on board.
