If TCAS is treated as such an important device that its advisories are never to be contradicted, one would ask, why TCAS is not redundant on aircraft and why it was (is?) possible to operate an aircraft for up to 10 days with TCAS failure.
Redundant : TCAS is a last minute device , that cannot be used to determine target levels of safety.Also too expensive ,well over 100.000 USD per unit .
10 days : Too long , we all agree and some would even like this on the MEL. But strong opposition from Airlines .
I have opened a separate Thread on TCAS to continue this interesting discussion , but which is outside the Ueberlingen Trial.
One of the main points for us in this trial is that Peter Nielsen has been rehabilitated by the Judges. That is good news send around by the Judiciary. For once :
