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Old 10th Nov 2016, 18:17
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Sidestick_n_Rudder
 
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I'm with F16GUY on this. TCAS RA's should be generally followed, no one is arguing this. However, if the situation is obvious (eg. VMC, one target only and one can unambiguously determine it is not a threat), are we supposed to follow, just because the computer says so?!

Same for eg. spurious GPWS warning in VMC (had it 2 times), "long flare" warning that got the EK777 into trouble at DXB, or the instance wher the EK A380 couldn't land at MAN and diverted, because the ROPS system said "no", even though the rwy length was more than sufficient. I feel sometimes we are doing things contrary to common sense, just to make the computer happy.
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