Originally Posted by
Onceapilot
Going back to the F15 Airprox, the incident shows how TCAS is no panacea for all Mil situations. A large aircraft cannot outmanoeuvre a fighter/bomber that maintains a collision flightpath while manoeuvring. Even if RA was enabled and followed, a manoeuvring FJ that happens to follow a dynamic path to collision cannot be avoided. TCAS can only assure a miss against steady flightpath traffic or compliant TCAS avoiding traffic. This should be fully understood. On the same basis, I think that active AAR block levels should normally be reserved for only co-ordinated Military traffic, as a Military restriction. It may be difficult to further restrict Civil traffic but, it is rare that civil conflictions occur and Mil radar should direct the Tanker to avoid laterally by a wide margin.
OAP
Onceapilot,
Have you changed your opinion on TCAS since the last time it was discussed in the "Crew ignored TCAS RA" thread or do you still think it should be followed blindly?
Originally Posted by
Onceapilot
Despite this being a "rumours and news" page, the moderators have allowed stupid trolling posts that attempt to undermine the sound basis of TCAS SOP. Mods, please remove posts that advocate anything other than compliance with TCAS SOP. Thanks