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Old 27th Jun 2008, 06:15
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james michael
 
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Mr Chimbu

I apologise, your advice does not clarify for me.

I understand TCAS is a very expensive item fitted to big aircraft.

My knowledge of PCAD / TCAD is limited but I understood they were cheap unsophisticated items that did not have TCAS capability.

I believe most require a radar pulse to work -
ATC ground stations and active TCAS systems transmit interrogation pulses on an uplink frequency of 1030 Megahertz. Aircraft transponders reply on a downlink frequency of 1090 Megahertz. PCAS devices detect these transponder responses, then analyze and display conflict information.
It is for this reson I ask your advice to determine if new TCAD as has your firend are more capable than the past ones. It also then relates to what i have thought about ADS-B being superlative as not needing MSSR pulses to trigger target advice.
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