FlightDetent,
there are a couple of things you said which I would like to query.
Originally Posted by FlightDetent
Last time we saw a pilot intentionally avoid published procedures, the death toll was 167, right?
I take it you are talking about Überlingen.
I think if you read the accident report, you will find that he was following procedures published in the flight manual of the aircraft he was flying. There were lots of applicable "published procedures", including those in the airplane flight manual, the regulations of the airspace in which he was flying, ICAO, and Eurocontrol advisory documents, and they were all different.
Originally Posted by FlightDetent
There's only one document
Well, this is legally just not right. The owner of the airspace in which you are flying defines the procedures. That's the document. And it changes every time you cross national boundaries. It is wishful thinking to imagine that all the countries in the world now agree on and have implemented in their air traffic regulations *exactly one* TCAS procedure, don't you think?
PBL