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Old 30th May 2011, 19:08
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Originally Posted by ap08
Is there any explanation why TCAS would fail? It seems completely unrelated to airspeed...
TCAS needs to know how fast they're going. If it doesn't it only has half the information (i.e. where they are) required to transmit .
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