Originally Posted by
43Inches
As I alluded to earlier even airline level TCAS is inhibited on approach and departure. At present the circuit area of an aerodrome is too chaotic for reliable solutions. TCAS/ACAS is great for en-route conflicts, but near airports its not going to do much but create a distraction of spurious alerts when you shpuld be heads outside monitoring your approach/flightpath and traffic, as well as a listening watch.
If airline-level TCAS was all good for approach and departure, we wouldn't need tower controllers then would we?? (uhoh, maybe that's part all of Airservice's sinister plan...
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