Descent rate - Class G

[andrewr]

Originally Posted by Capn Bloggs

The Mildura near-miss between the Embraer 190 and the GA-8 is a case in point. The GA-8 was 11,000ft at 10.5nm from the runway, diving to 1300ft at 3.5nm.

Ah yes, the Magic Airvan report.

The whole report was based on TCAS data that showed the Airvan accelerating to 200 knots on 5 mile final as the jet turned base. If you think an Airvan doing 200 knots is unlikely, and it is more likely that the TCAS data was unreliable during the turn, the near miss never really happened.

If the Airvan maintained more Airvan-like speeds it was perfectly set up for an approach and landing a couple of minutes after the jet.

What seems most likely is that the the jet pilots got spooked by bad TCAS data, and the Airvan pilot got hauled into an investigation of a near miss that never occurred.