Originally Posted by
Mr Approach
So are we helping to prevent the remaining 59% of collisions by forcing pilots that have radios to listen on a specific frequency? The evidence would seem to indicate not; the 41% were probably on the GA airport Tower frequency receiving an ATS service.
Problem is with that argument, we don't have statistics saying how many incidents simply never became incidents because people communicated their intentions.
You only hear about times where things broke down, not where things worked as they should.
Other than that - I agree - pilots need to look. Radio or not.