Originally Posted by
George Glass
cappt, I hope you don’t operate into Sydney. An RA is an RA.
Never ever been trained to second guess it.
What if there is traffic you’re not aware of?
In SFO the runways are closely spaced. An RA will
occur due to the simultaneous closely spaced arrivals. ATC gives the instruction “report the traffic in sight”
when the pilot says “in sight” the controller will then state “maintain VISUAL separation cleared for the visual”. At that point the separation is among the pilots. Technique is to turn to TA only to avoid nuisance RA. That is approved UA procedure. If you don’t like that procedure you will go around and around and around on each approach to SFO. Pairing up and flying near the other plane is SOP for SFO. If you can’t fly the plane and adhere to instructions maybe it’s not the airport or the other airlines fault you are having difficulties.