Well, that is fine. However, if you knew you had to go on one of two flights, both will get in similar situation as the TU-154(in terms of known and visually acquired RA traffic and ATC reported but unseen visually or on TCAS traffic) at night or day and you knew that one captain would follow the RA and the other would attempt to visually manouver against the RA.....who would you prefer to fly with.
I think that you will find that most pilots will follow their SOP's and Eurocontrol newsletters on how to react to an RA even if there is other traffic out the. This probably happens quite frequently when a conflict arises and there are lots of airplanes out there on the TCAS display some of which have no altitude displayed(usually light aircraft). They have made their risk evaluation.
Last edited by punkalouver; 7th December 2007 at 15:51.