Originally Posted by Spitoon
But if I might end with a slightly contentious thought, one of the 'problems' with TCAS was the unilateral way that it was introduced without consideration of the system totality and, if I recall correctly, in a knee-jerk reaction to a mid-air collision. And we are still trying to fix the problems that this created.
I see we agree on the essentials. My main point is that necessary analysis has still not been done.
Originally Posted by Spitoon
it seems to me that, in some respects at least, contemporarily we are seeing a similar course of events over another safety net system, that designed to address runway incursions and the associated risks.
I don't know enough about that system yet to draw any conclusions. I hope that a similar high-visibility accident does not lead to a similar mandated-intro until the system has been thoroughly analysed.
PBL