Hello and welcome to episode 312 of AvTalk. I am Ian Petchnik. Jason is off this week. And filling in on the podcast this week is my colleague, Chris Lomas, saying hello from London, I believe, Chris.

Welcome back to the show.

Great to be back on the podcast, Ian.

And yes, hello from London.

It's been a busy week.

Jason, I think, picked actually any week these days is a good week to be off.

But Jason's down in Mexico City focusing on rail

transportation pursuits this week rather than aviation. So good luck to him and he'll be back

next week. Chris, thanks so much for filling in. We've got a pretty healthy show this week.

A lot of updates on things that we've talked about in the past couple weeks and then

some new stuff that's happening and some old stuff that's new again. Let's go to Washington,

D.C., where last week we talked about the preliminary report from the NTSB and the urgent safety recommendations made by the NTSB to the FAA

regarding the helicopter routes in the Washington, D.C. area. The FAA took that advice to heart,

I say, and they have now permanently closed the helicopter routes that passed along DCA,

along the Potomac's Edge, as well as the route that passed directly over DCA.

These are helicopter routes four and six.

So route four was the helicopter route that the US Army Blackhawk

was following when it collided with the PSA, CRJ. And route 6 is the one that passes directly

over the airfield at about 1,500 feet. The FAA has recharted those, closing them off. So the Route 4 just no longer exists along the edge of the Potomac from about Haynes Point

all the way through to the follow-on bridge.

And then Route 6, just that section that passes over the airfield has been deleted.

We'll put a link in the show notes to the actual recharting

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