Anyone had anything similar to this happen lately?
BEWARE! THEY ARE OUT THERE!
Yours truly departed to the east from Bunbury today at about 1pm - an hour or so after the low cloud and showers moved in. After entering the soup at about 1100' and getting a departure call off to centre, things were looking good.
Passing 4000', identified, was given "traffic 10'oclock, 5 miles, unverified 5500' southbound".
In solid IMC WTF?
After leveling out at 4500', " Traffic now 2 miles 10 o'clock 5500' unv."
me dead!
Shortly, "Traffic now in your 6, 1mile"
Thank
for that!
At 30 miles BUN at 9000' I finally popped into the blue.
I'm sure this isnt the first case of this but I have three questions for starters.
1. How accurate is radar when they say "unverified"?
2. Do VFR pilots really smash around in 8000' thick soup these days
3. Given this champ went from being 2miles 10o'clock, to 1mile at 6 quite quickly, is it likely he was aware of the situation and "ducked" around behind while maintaining radio silence?