The whole situation was based on an insane procedure if expecting it to provide always separation. When separation is based on whether the copter will fly on one side or the other of a river bank and have additionally 200 feet or so vertically below the other traffic and at night, that will eventually fail to provide. And the jets on circling approaches, no glide slope, who’s to say that they, absence knowledge of and visual with the copter traffic, not be dragging it in some below papis or vasis. Just can’t be expected to work except by luck. If you ain’t got “green between”, counting on that skinny altitude is crazy. And good luck to the copter that it doesn’t roll inverted as it passes close behind and one/two hundred feet under the jet. It worked, and credit to those who made it work…until it didn’t work. I’m sure luck and the big sky theory prevailed many times until…
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