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Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: N. Phoenix AZ USA
Posts: 28,977
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Quote:
Originally Posted by GLASFIBRE
We all simply have to look outside the dam cockpit!
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Thats the problem these days. Most younger pilots simply are fixated on the gauges inside and feel that TCAS will do everything for you. They forget that many gliders and a lot of antique and other smaller airplanes do not have a transponder so do not show up on the TCAS. As well lots of experimental and antique airplanes are almost invisible on radar, making it even more difficult to see. Put a wooden or composite prop on a wooden or tube and fabric airplane and radar does not see them at all, even a primary blip.
Last guy I flew with would let traffic fly directly under or over us and never even look out of the window. Even when it was within 2-3 miles and a few hundred feet of our altitude (TCAS flashing red and saying go up or down) and he was still heads down and in the cockpit. Yes, he is younger and a lot less experienced.
LOOK OUTSIDE the cockpit!
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Last edited by Joeaksa; 10-06-2009 at 06:23 AM..
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