Originally Posted by
Pace
...The aircraft I fly has to have TAWS fitted because pilots are not perfect beasts and we need protecting from our own mistakes.
The aircraft I used to fly had TAWS fitted and it threw up so many distracting false alarms I usually turned it off.....that might have been because it was an aeroplane TAWS unit fitted in an IFR Helicopter, dedicated HTAWS units are probably better. My other memory of TAWS is one day I did fly past a bloody big hill in bad weather and it was only through visual reference that I avoided flying into the hill. TAWS Terrain warning gave me no prior indication what-so-ever. In that instance it was only visual reference and looking outside and not relying on TAWS that protected me from making a mistake. In the low level environment you MUST be able to see where you are going with or without TAWS, and that of course means no scud running in clouds!