Mandatory Action on RA's
Just read in the new Flight International (page 14) that there is a proposal from the JAA that 'takes away from pilots the option of doing nothing in response to an RA, and forbids action in the sense opposite to the advisory. The new rule requires that response to an RA shall be "it shall never be in a sense opposite to that required by the RA, (shall) be in the correct sense required by the RA even if this is in conflict with the vertical element of an air traffic control instruction, (and shall) be the minimum possible to comply with the RA." '
I dont fly for an airline, so I was wondering what those who do think of this, how does it differ from the current rules? How reliable is TCAS, and what if the controller is clear one
shouldn't (say) descend in response to a RA? Surely it is conceivable that he may have a situation that he knows that the RA response isn't the right move?