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Old 21st May 2008 | 23:09
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TCAS -Turbulence avoidance applicability

Is TCAS practical for wake avoidance purposes?

Climbing to alt and falling into line behind other traffic, would the other traffic be displayed on the ND? Being 5 miles ahead on the same track, it's not a threat, but shouldn't it display as proximate traffic, even if you've got the range on the ND greater than 40 NM?

From what I've seen the answer is apparently not.

Any insight into the vagaries of proximate traffic display would be appreciated.
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