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Old 17th Mar 2014, 12:14
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Originally Posted by Captain Charisma
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Correct TCAS does not display direction of travel per se, it does however show the position of the other aircraft relative to yourself.
Hopefully a TCAS is that accurate otherwise the sole purpose of its use is for naught.
Yes it'll give you a rough indication of other aircraft positions but it's sole purpose is to provide vertical separation/guidance. It is notoriously inaccurate laterally and certainly not good enough for interception and that's not even counting it's extremely limited range.

I guess that's why fighters have expensive radar kits as opposed to TCAS.
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