Originally posted by Genghis the Engineer:
If you'd care to compare airmanship Irish, I had a PA-28 turn at 900ft across a town straight towards me 2 years ago whilst I was flying S&L down the coast in a microlight
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Bottom line is that close encounters of the wrong sort happen in all sizes of aircraft, the worst I've had was over Midhurst, training at 2400 Ft with a full RAS from Dunsfold, we got 10 seconds warning of traffic that turned out to be a BAC1-11 at 2500 Ft working Gatwick. Turned out that the controller at LGW had supressed Dunsfold's returns, so didn't see us there when he cleared the 1-11 along the base of the control zone. Caused a few sweaty palms, I can tell you!
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On which subject if you were at 1500ft in VMC, how could a microlight "flash past" without warning given it is highly unmanoeuvrable and probably flying at 45 knots? If memory serves, Exeter CTA is 5nm across, so at 4½nm out, he was 2 miles outside the CTA.
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I was about half a mile from the outer marker, on the ILS procedure in VFR, and both the controller and I would have been a lot happier if the Microlight operators had stopped to consider that 1400 Ft that close to a published procedure is not exactly good for the health! I was in a PA39 doing about 130 Kts at the time, the next behind me was likely to be somewhat larger and faster!
Whatever we're flying, there's good and bad people in the air around us, the trick is to try and keep away from the bad ones. There's a few more stories there too, but not now
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"Irish" Steve