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  1. ISaidRightTurns

    TCAS in an Emergency Descent

    Often with military on discreet frequencies, I have been known to issue the beacon of the traffic. Not legal, but I believe adds a bit of SA for the fast movers. It is kinda creepy to have them come back with 'radar contact'.
  2. ISaidRightTurns

    TCAS in an Emergency Descent

    If I need it, I'll keep calling. Even pull out the ol 7110.65 "Do you have it in sight?". If one or the other says they are in the soup, I leave it alone and go to plan B. Which with me is normally plan M or N.
  3. ISaidRightTurns

    TCAS in an Emergency Descent

    So in a situation like I had, if the emergency aircraft was SB and a conflict a/c was NB, what would the resolution be? I would imagine that the emergency a/c's TCAS would be issuing an RA to reduce the rate of descent, or climb, which wouldn't really be an option. After a few updates and the...
  4. ISaidRightTurns

    TCAS in an Emergency Descent

    Soooo - From what I gather from some of the actual replies, TCAS in a normal mode only scans +/- 2k, so it wouldn't see the conflict until about 10 seconds before the a/c passes through your altitude. Unless you have it in Up/Down mode, then it would give you about 30 seconds warning. Is...
  5. ISaidRightTurns

    TCAS in an Emergency Descent

    Where the hell did that come from? Freak.
  7. ISaidRightTurns

    TCAS in an Emergency Descent

    No, I don't care if you see him on TCAS or not. Above FL180, I don't care if you see him at all really, because I can't use visual seperation. The only reason I do it is because I have been up there and seen someone fly over head a 1000 feet above, its a creepy feeling, even if you are...
  8. ISaidRightTurns

    TCAS in an Emergency Descent

    My understanding is that it extrapolates data based on the 3A transponder, which is what we use for civilians in ATC. Is that not right? Is there a different box, antenna, whole set-up for TCAS? Where does it get its altitude information and is it accurate to the foot, 10 feet, 100 feet ??
  9. ISaidRightTurns

    TCAS in an Emergency Descent

    I guess my question pertains more to refresh rate. This guy went from 34k to 12k in probably less than 2 minutes. Thats 2k feet every 10 seconds (which our radar updates at). Even if TCAS refreshed twice as often as ours, and we presume saw him, it wouldn't even recognize it as traffic until...
  10. ISaidRightTurns

    TCAS in an Emergency Descent

    Here is a question for you guys. Today I had a NWA DC9 lose pressurization over IRQ (Colliers) at FL340. The first sign I get of it is him telling me. There is traffic all over because it was fairly early and that line of TS was just to the east of ATL. So here this guy is at FL340 SB over...
  11. ISaidRightTurns

    Cost of buying a used Cessna-172?

    All I'm saying is that people get closed in on the a/c they trained in. Doesn't sound like this guy is trying to make money running lobsters, he just wants a plane. Which everyone here can at the very least understand. I can't agree that a high wing is a great cross country airplane. After...
  13. ISaidRightTurns

    Cost of buying a used Cessna-172?

    You had better think about what type of flying you will do. When I bought my first plane, I had been renting 172s and the old guys at the FBO, as nice as they were, only knew 172s. There are alot of planes out there, and many people feel comfortable in something they train in, that is...
  14. ISaidRightTurns

    ATC Question

    Yeah, we have that with AGS appch sometimes. It has to do with their ARTS system. If the flight plan processing is down, they just assign all a/c 4600, then manually call the center sector to coordinate departure time and heading. Once we get the a/c, we depart him in the machine, and put him...
  15. ISaidRightTurns

    ATC Question

    To say we just range out is a bit of an understatement. First, the maps need to be changed to the correst sector and the handoff feature forwarded. Then the VSCS (lines) are all forwarded to the new possition. The new frequencies are turned on and there you have it. We combine vertically...
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