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Old 1st Jul 2009, 11:20
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Capt Pit Bull
 
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Fratemate,

Yes this is correct. Although now that I read what I wrote, it is a little innacurate because I said:

TCAS can only reverse once per encounter, and that already happened right at the start.
This is perhaps a little misleading because you aren't like to get a reversal at the very beginning of an RA, TCAS needs several seconds to assess the danger (I forget how many exactly, I no longer have a primary role as a TCAS insructor and I fly a desk these days). Then you need to fly the reversal. So we're are probably at least 15 seconds into the encounter. So at low altitudes there probably wouldn't time for a second reversal anyway.

Of course this doesnt change the basic thrust of the arguement - we want the intruder to stop manouevering asap, and the best way to do that is to get ATC to stop controlling it with the call.

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