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Originally Posted by USMCFLYR
If a military aircraft joins into a parade formation on a civilian aircraft then they are not following anyone's rules.
With that said - I'm curious about the TCAS advisory. I don't fly with TCAS; but I understand that some of the advisories are basically directive in nature. Is this correct? I imagine that flying around with TCAS in a MOA could give lots of false alarms. Also - the F-16 pilot might not have been out of his assigned airspace either; the Premier jet mentions flying along at FL190. The radar return certainly makes it look like a stern conversion so I would have to guess that the F-16 knew he was there all the time and was purposeful in their intercept (no other military aircraft around at the time?) Now - 10' - wow. That sure is hoping the other pilot doesn't move suddenly when he all of the sudden realizes that there is another aircraft on his wing.
USMCFLYR
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You have two types of TCAS advisories in modern aircraft. TAs and RAs. TAs are Traffic Advisories and as indicated are advisory in nature. RAs are Resolution advisories and will indicate a climb or descend command with visual guidance to avoid the traffic. Unless you have visual contact with the traffic, RAs are mandatory to comply with. You get TAs a lot due to projected conflicts with fast movers. You'll get them a lot descending on an arrival that passes just over a departure or vice versa from the closure rates alone. I had a TA just last week from an F-16 beating feet out of ACY on the VCN arrival to PHL. We were at 10000ish on the arrival and he busted up out of there like a bat out of hell heading for feet wet. Looked a lot like an alert launch scenario to me. By the time ATC(ZNY) mentioned him, we had the TA, tally, and he was through our altitude. Pretty cool actually.
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