Beer Bong wrote:
You obviously use the radio, not your eyes to avoid aircraft in non towered operations, so I am not surprised you have a "faceful of Tobago".
The recent mid-air at 2RN (2 fatalities) highlights the limitations of see and avoid, and we're talking very experienced pilots involved here. I have the benefit of TCAD and it's difficult to eyeball en-route traffic at 2 MI when you know exactly where to look. At YPPF the traffic blends into suburbia and is equally as difficult to spot.
There's the expectation that radio position reports in the circuit are (within reason) accurate, however there are pilots who are dumb and stupid (or in some cases arrogant), and what they tell you may be incorrect, such as calling (and turning) BASE on downwind abeam the numbers, or the Chipmunk in a barrel roll across my downwind path at YLTV.
An added complication is understanding what the position report is actually telling you (at YPPF in particular), unless you are fluent in Singrish (no offence intended).