I don’t know what the stats are but I reckon it’s much more likely than one in a million!

Wycombe area Air Traffic
 

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Sorry for any misunderstanding of my post which was NOT intended to be a criticism of any ATC authority but referring to air traffic control among pilots and their aircraft. It was the first time I had flown anywhere near that airfield and the impression gained from the mass of jumbled aircraft flying in all or any direction was reminiscent of a mass bees around a honey pot . I may just have picked a bad day but nevertheless made a mental note to keep well clear of flying in that area in the future. Things may be different and greatly improved today but that was my experience years ago. My apologies for upsetting those concerned.

Oxford Radar 127.750 provide a more than efficient LARS service - perhaps too efficient at times. That doesn't change the fact that it is uncontrolled airspace and you don't have to talk to anybody if you don't want to.

pasir

Understood that you did not mean to imply criticism of any ATC unit, but it's rather confusing when you then refer to "air traffic control among pilots and their aircraft"!

As for the mass of jumbled aircraft flying in ... any direction = class G with a few other people doing what you were doing! Why is that a bad day?

2 s

This statement is incorrect. Both agencies were available at the time of this accident.

As mentioned the NOTAM'd closure of Farnborough North was after 17.00 and the London Info closures are after midnight.

Yes, I've used Oxford before. However official responsibility for LARS for that area is covered by Brize and the gap lies further east

I accept the correction ! Though I will say that I think that the NOTAM was worded in a misleading way (for simple folk like me, anyway).

I would agree with that. Especially in the context that a pre flight list of NOTAMS affecting even a short route runs to many pages.

the USAF have the answer to collision avoidance.

Fighter pilots told 'keep windscreens clean' to avoid crashes - BBC News

Sorted!

Rans6.......................

Any cropdusting pilot worth his salt even decades ago, could have told them that.

A dirty bug spattered windscreen, especially flying into the direction of the sun can be a ticket to eternity in that business.

Dan, this is an anomaly/peculiarity of the GA forum (and an extremely poor one at that). Military accidents are in the military forum, ditto commercial ones, ditto rotorheads. The same format should apply to GA, and some would argue the rationale behind having your accident discussions right in the eyeballs of the relevant flying community (as opposed to a sub-forum) would be even more important in GA.

...and it also serves to confuse as your comment and plenty of other dual threads/posts demonstrate.

Time this anomaly is fixed imo.

Seems some are determined to miss the point: One stop collation at a single point whether running live or moved over after the fact.

The forums you praise are actually the cause of this forum. Reams of information lost through the tyranny of time and the slipping down through the pages so quickly. Final reports get even more lost, more quickly as they only generate shorter threads to get lost in the cracks. 20+ years of archives demonstrate this time and again.

Rob

Years ago the USAF devoted significant effort to telling us they might not be looking where they were going

The F-111 was badly fenestrated.

Hence the Heyford radio area.

crowded skies? try flying on a GOOD day for gliding...
 

Invited to visit ATC at Upper Heyford, long ago, when Americans were running the place...they kindly demonstrated what their equipment could transmit.
It depended on the settings....they could actually see EVERY CAR AND TRUCK on the M40! And certainly any aircraft above 50 feet, whatever.

But the day that they dreaded was good gliding weather when gliding competitions were taking place. Talk about crowded skies? twenty or thirty returns in one thermal?

Power pilots, stay home, or practice your night flying!

Tad unconstructive no? I used to authorise aviators for a living...hence my knowledge of all things flight safety is (or perhaps was) of some merit???

I well understand the merits of having a specialised "accidents" sub forum. And indeed the demerits of such. I also understand the merits of having an organised, clear and structured forum, where everybody knows where everything is and everything goes.

Plenty of posts I have seen would suggest, you are not quite there yet.

But hey, it's your train set...do what you want, you will anyway.