visually being calm about did not have an operating transponder
Welcome to ausNAS.
uninformed people at Eurocontrol
Those people are quite uninformed when it comes to australian operations. I work with some guys who cannot get their head around the fact that there are large sections of oz that don't have ANY radar coverage, not just primary radar. TCAS is predicated on correctly operating transponders, something that is checked daily in a full radar environment.
When it says "Traffic",
The CANTY DJ incident showed that under NAS, you can go from TA to RA in 2 seconds. Nothing is calm at that point.
And so should you all!
What will the IL76 pilot, callsign "aussy" (contracted by the oz govt to shift stuff for the mil in our various world-domination campaigns {it cracks me up every time I hear the callsign}) do?