By james art 
Topeka, Kan. (Wibw) – Black Hawk helicopter was one of the two aircraft involved in the plane crash on January 29th.
Topeka Stephen Hood has been a pilot with the National Guard in Kansas for more than 30 years.
“I moved to Black Hawk in ’93, I believe,” Hood said. “I made four spaces one in Kosovo, two to Iraq and one in Afghanistan.”
Hood says learning to navigate Black Hawks takes years of training and a lot of practice.
“Black Hawk is designed to be a mission aircraft soon, so it is more complicated that there are more radio stations and navigation systems, it’s a little more difficult,” Hood said.
Having experience can be the best way not to feel overloaded in the cockpit.
“If I fly with another pilot and do something with them and have radio stations and try to scan and do everything under glasses, you can overload pretty quickly,” Hood said. “We call him to get behind the plane.”
Hood adds that even with night vision glasses, it can be difficult to see completely around the plane.
“If you take, put your hands on your face like that you see under the glasses so that if I have to see something on the side, I have to turn my head to look at it and we call it by putting your head on A spinning,” Hood said S
Hood told 13 news that fly over the water can have their own obstacles.
“The only way you can say what you have is with our radar altimeter, which, if the water is torn or moving, is not reliable,” Hood said. “So it’s hard to have other visual signals.”
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