Originally Posted by
43Inches
Hence why right of way should not be sorted out below 500 feet with one on final and one taking off. Generally the simplest answer is if the aircraft on final sees an aircraft on the crossing taking off, go-round, avoid in the missed approach. There's much more space to maneuver in the air, then continue to land and you both end up in the intersection anyway. The situation at Caboolture sounds way more complicated than the rules can account for and a last minute third party confused the situation and led to the outcome. Granted what may have been agreed to occur may not have been legal, but once you are in that position....
I (strongly) agree with your suggested strategy.
But the situation at Caboolture is, in my experience, not unusual and the existing rules deal with most if not all scenarios at non-controlled aerodromes. I just reiterate that it's important to understand that, in some scenarios, two pilots can be in the wrong rather than one of them being absolutely right and the other absolutely wrong.