the minute the controller was sure the cessna was going to maintain visual seperation and he notified united of this, the incident should have been over.
I would like to know if:
The United crew looked at their TCAS screen and saw the traffic prior to an RA being issued? (this would enable the pilots to visually scan for the traffic.
And why aviator thinks it worthy to add: a 777 heavily loaded taking off towards rising terrian? With that tailwind, they could have asked for runway 10 (and waited and waited and waited). That is just part of San Francisco operations, why mention it?
Does UNITED just have the min TCAS display on the VSI or is it on the radar screen...selectable to many,many miles?
and dear self loading freight...if anyone was to be delayed , the cessna would have been allowed to continue and the 777 would have had to wait, safely on the ground...burning up lots of gas(actually jet fuel)