Originally Posted by
Sailvi767
At my airline and most others what the policy means is that you should not deviate until you get a RA to avoid other issues or conflicts.
PIC retains final authority as to the disposition of the aircraft, and collision avoidance definitely falls into the "don't particularly care what the book says" territory.
That route forced helicopters below 200 ft., how can that not be unsafe?
The only metric seems to be how much traffic gets moved. I hope this accident highlights how visual separation at night isn't appropriate at major airports (particuarly when airline IFR traffic is involved), but personally I don't think anything will change.