Originally Posted by
RAC/OPS
if anything we might tell you the traffic is closer than it is to get you (not you personally) to hurry up. There is such a large variation of how quickly or not different airlines (even individual pilots) line up and get going. We have to work with the lowest common denominator.
Any pilot who can read their TCAS and knows that 3 degrees is 320’/Nm isn’t going to be suckered into thinking that the little white icon at +13 is 3 miles out. 😁