Originally Posted by
mooney
tell that to the 737 crew or Skywest crew who got landed on by 737 at LAX killing dozens because the controller screwed up and cleared them to land when Skywest was on the runway. Had the 737 seen the strobes of the aircraft on the runway they may have gone around. I believe that is straight out of the NTSB report. How bout not staring at the strobes if it bothers you????? or if you thing they might be turning them on as they take the runway, look away! you don't have to watch them position and hold. My strobes are always on when I take the runway for this very reason, or of someone decides to pull in from of me while I'm doing 130 kts down the runway...that little flash of light might be all that saves the day.
Originally Posted by
Paid2fly
The main cause of that was controller error. That and the fact that back then ATC used to have us sit position and hold on the runway for very long periods of time waiting for departure clearance, and still use that same runway for arriving aircraft.
Well we have a parrot on here! Isn't that all pretty obvious? Of course the MAIN reason was controller error. But as mooney said, even the NTSB said the case may have turned out for the better had they seen a strobe on the runway, vs just a tail nav light that blended in with the centerline lights. So I guess you think we don't need tcas turned on either since midairs are mainly controller error?