TCAS procedures
My company which flys aircraft from 3 different manufacturers all include in the respective TCAS procedures elements of the pilots looking out to visually identify the intruder aircraft....
my simple questions is "why do we bother doing this?"
The TCAS alerts the crew, and if a RA occurs, one takes the appropriate vertical deviation as generated by the TCAS unit.
Who cares where the aircraft appears (if the crew can see it all) and of course you would never ignore a TCAS just because you can see the intruder aircraft.
So for procedure simplification's sake why don't we just wait for an RA and if it happens, follow it. Procedure done.
All this nonsense about adjusting ND scales etc, PNF looking seem to take our attention away from the primary and only important step of maneuvering the aircraft vertically.
Are there some certification requirements from the early days of TCAS II that required the crew to attempt to visually acquire the other aircraft??
thanks in advance.
767-300ER