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Old 9th Nov 2016, 11:45
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Originally Posted by lederhosen
Heard an interesting one on frequency a couple of weeks ago. A Qatar heavy descending over the Balkans to get out of moderate turbulence had an RA with an aircraft going the other way as he was levelling off. The pilots thought it was a system error, the controller suggested that it might be due to turbulence. Anyone else come across anything similar?
search for "pop-up" RAs and TCAS altitude sampling rate. Though with the modern equipment it should not have been an issue. So maybe a blind lead.
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