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Old 08-29-2008, 08:13 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Old 08-29-2008, 09:10 PM   #2 (permalink)
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I saw this on another news site. Knudson, the NTSB spokesman, was quoted as saying that the pilots took "evasive" action.

How can a .25G manuever with a required 5 second response time be considered evasive?
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Old 08-29-2008, 09:17 PM   #3 (permalink)
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I saw this on another news site. Knudson, the NTSB spokesman, was quoted as saying that the pilots took "evasive" action.

How can a .25G manuever with a required 5 second response time be considered evasive?
This is why we have TCAS...nothing to see here. I've had 2 RA's...neither made the news.
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Old 08-29-2008, 10:44 PM   #4 (permalink)
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I saw this on another news site. Knudson, the NTSB spokesman, was quoted as saying that the pilots took "evasive" action.

How can a .25G manuever with a required 5 second response time be considered evasive?
Hey take it easy! They were at least 1 minute within hitting each other! You need Top Gun skills to follow that green arc on the TCAS.
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Old 08-30-2008, 04:01 AM   #5 (permalink)
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I saw this on another news site. Knudson, the NTSB spokesman, was quoted as saying that the pilots took "evasive" action.

How can a .25G manuever with a required 5 second response time be considered evasive?
Depends on who you ask lol
Bit blown out of proportion on the reporting side ,but then what else schould one expect.
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Old 08-30-2008, 05:58 AM   #6 (permalink)
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SLOP.... 'nuff said.
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Old 08-30-2008, 06:21 AM   #7 (permalink)
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Hey take it easy! They were at least 1 minute within hitting each other! You need Top Gun skills to follow that green arc on the TCAS.
You guys crack me up ... hahah.
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Old 08-30-2008, 06:47 AM   #8 (permalink)
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Thanks ALPA for the TCAS!!!!

I wonder how two airplanes at the same altitude ended up being so much closer than 15 minutes separation.
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Old 08-30-2008, 06:52 AM   #9 (permalink)
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When you get a TCAS RA, you don't think!

You don't have time to think!!!

If you think, your dead!!!
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When you get a TCAS RA, you don't think!

You don't have time to think!!!

If you think, your dead!!!
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