Originally Posted by punkalouver
[...] and says that doing what the Tupolev crew did was a rational choice, it could easily be interpreted by some readers as advice even if it wasn't meant that way.
Which is why I went to some length to explain what I meant by
rational choice.
And I also modified the setup so that the "Tupolev" crew did not receive an RA, but only ATC instructions, to which scenario you failed to make any statement whatsoever. I assume because you then would have to realise that all pilots following their, even in hindsight,
best (as opposed to merely one of several rational) choice, could induce a collision.
[...] in the vast majority of cases, all pilots following the RA including the 154/757 situation will prevent a collision.
And how do we know that it is indeed "the vast majority"? As long as we don't know that, we would not make a statement like that. Indeed, without the extensive data mining I mentioned before of air traffic data of a significant time period we cannot know.
Bernd