Originally Posted by
tossbag
I challenge any of you to overfly any Class D tower in the US. That's how it's done. And Sunfish could overfly at very modest levels, without having to talk to them, shock, horror, indignation. Oh the humanity.
I don't think flying overhead at 4000-5000ft would interest the locals when they are more interested in 500ft up and down the coast. And its all fine when both parties are compliant, when someone becomes non compliant, that's when having a Transponder will tell everyone where their non compliance is heading. After all conflict mostly occurs when at least one party is not where the other expects them to be. So if one aircraft (especially one invisible to radar) is not doing what they are supposed to, how is a tower going to fix that? In Albury the tower didn't do anything to prevent the collision, the TCAS did.