Near Miss?
Hovering AND talking
Joined: Feb 2003
Posts: 5,711
Likes: 1
From: Propping up bars in the Lands of D H Lawrence and Bishop Bonner
Whatever the journalist decides!
Anyway, if you nearly miss something, surely you hit it! Surely it be termed a near hit?
Are you talking about when you would file an AIRPROX?
Cheers
Whirls
Anyway, if you nearly miss something, surely you hit it! Surely it be termed a near hit?
Are you talking about when you would file an AIRPROX?
Cheers
Whirls
Joined: Jun 2002
Posts: 88
Likes: 2
From: New Zealand
Near Miss?
If you nearly miss something, then you must have hit it.
Anyway to answer the question. I believe it's whenever the minimum separation distance between aircraft is breached. This varies depending on the flight category and the type of airspace you're operating in.
Guest
Posts: n/a
I filed an airprox the other day. Someone decided to join the circuit downwind with no regard to circuit traffic. I took avoiding action and he went past and slightly below the front of me by about 100 metres. Too close for me (and anyone else).
Joined: Mar 2005
Posts: 217
Likes: 0
From: Cranfield UK
In health & safety terms a near miss report is welcomed because action may possibly be taken to prevent potential incidents. I have had what some people might call near misses but the only time I have been seriously concerned was when the near miss was a complete surprise and when I had no opportunity to take avoiding action. This to me is a near miss and it can be as close as a few yards or quarter of a mile if big, fast or heavy!
I REALLY SHOULDN'T BE HERE
Joined: Dec 2005
Posts: 2,458
Likes: 550
From: TOD
A TCAS RA is not necessarily an airprox. As someone has already said, once the correct separation is maintained there is no problem. (TCAS looks at rates of closure so if somone is climbing from directly below you at, for example, 3,500fpm to level out 1000ft below you may well get a climb RA, but provided they level off 1000ft below then there has been no loss of separation).
sr
sr
