Not sure if any of you saw the
AOPA video of an F-16 driver that made a rocket run on a civilian Beech Premier in the American Southwest a few months ago, but the entire incident has raised many questions about operations in or near MOAs for both pilots and controllers.
The Premier pilot - who seems to have been VFR beneath an MOA - saw the F-16 coming and got first a TCAS traffic alert, followed quickly by a resolution alert. He yanked back on the wheel to comply with TCAS and popped into the MOA where civil controllers had no authority to talk to him.
I'm trying to figure out who is more crazy here, the F-16 guy for being beneath the MOA and using the Premier as a practice target, or the Beech pilot for trying to fly VFR so close to the MOA. Maybe it's both.
Since so many of you are from outside the U.S., I thought maybe the rules are somewhat different.
Any thoughts?
Jetwhine