I’ve been a bit busy and will catch up on some of the important earlier posts, but I have to say that – as with ADS-B IN - TCAS/ACAS is not the panacea either, at least not for aircraft in the vicinity of GAAPs – sorry ‘D Metropolitan’ - when they are busy. Lots of traffic in ‘close’ proximity.
When I started training and did flights in and out of YSBK, it was three parallel runways in operation, 3 aircraft rolling, 3 on short final, me on long final with an aircraft off each wing on final to the other runways, inbound traffic behind and outbound traffic in the general opposite direction (hopefully at least 500’ vertical separation). What do we think TCAS/ACAS would be doing during all of this?
As touched on earlier, it will be very interesting to see what avionics were fitted to the helicopters involved in the Seaworld tragedy.
Last edited by Clinton McKenzie; 13th November 2023 at 23:39.