Hugh Jorgan
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Sounds cool. Please do.Cat Driver said:I wrote a short story about crop dusting back in the fifties and sixties, anyone want me to link it here?
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Sounds cool. Please do.Cat Driver said:I wrote a short story about crop dusting back in the fifties and sixties, anyone want me to link it here?
mattpilot said:I seek no closure. I also have no desire to give someone a hard time with their boss (hey, as far as i know it was a one time occurence). All i did was rant about this incident, as admitted in the original post. Anger did play a role, obviously. This thread more or less serves as a reminder that there are dangerous situations out there, and everyone should be as careful as possible. I sure learned something from that incident. Perhaps others have too, or at least have been made aware that there are non standard operations going on - legal or otherwise. I didn't intend for this thread to get out of hand as it has. However, some of the responces defending the ag pilot & telling me that I and the fellow pilots in the pattern were at fault do bother me.
As for contacting said owner ... thats okay. If you know the owner, feel free to send him a link to this thread, if you think that would help anything.
Do you still maintain that the ag pilot did nothing wrong in the debated situation? Were the other five aircraft in the pattern at fault for following established procedures?
Wrong. Modes C and S will show with altitude information and can generate TAs and RAs. Transponder equipped aircraft not squawking altitude will show without altitude information and can only generate TAs.avbug said:...and like most of you, I know fully well that only Mode S Transponder-equipped aircraft appear on TCAS...
AV Bug....Years ago I was at a small airport in Arkansas when an FAA inspector was citing ag pilots for careless and reckless operations for crossing active runway at the local airport without making any calls or reports and cutting off planes using that runway. It is not required to call on the radio but the inspector told me that because of the ag pilot was putting others at risk that he had to cite him for careless and reckless operations.
This is a true story... I was there
Wrong. Modes C and S will show with altitude information and can generate TAs and RAs. Transponder equipped aircraft not squawking altitude will show without altitude information and can only generate TAs.
Cat Driver said:Hmmmm. well I guess my posting a normal story about ag flying got lost in the heat of the moment....
...oh well I tried..![]()
Cat Driver
I was the one, mentioned earlier in this thread, that suggested he write a book. It was only after several mis-steps and inaccurate info he was posting on another web site that I "called him out".
He mixes sound advice with very BAD advice and will NEVER admit he is EVER wrong.
Avbug will even flame you if you compliment him, strange fellow indeed.
I also feel he is very bitter and needs to feel empowered by his posts. That is why he lives on a computer.
I feel he is combative towards others because he never met his goals early in his career and is relegated to a low paying thankless job.
According to Avgod and many of your colleagues, you would need a "third hand" to use a radio. My contention is simple, if you are flying a NO RADIO equipt ag plane, then follow normal protocols.
Goodnight!
Jim said:Wrong. Modes C and S will show with altitude information and can generate TAs and RAs. Transponder equipped aircraft not squawking altitude will show without altitude information and can only generate TAs.
TCAS came out before Mode S. Mode C is supposed to show up on TCAS. That it sometimes does not can be due to many factors: signal attenuation, block signals due to the relative placement of the antenna on each aircraft, etc.avbug said:Actually, no. Merely because an aircraft has a 4096 Mode C transponder, the target will not necessarily even show up on TCAS. But then that's the point. Folks also think that because they have TCAS, like a radio, they're seeing and hearing all the traffic, and that just ain't so. It's not just aircraft that aren't squawking that don't show up. I see aircraft every day, passing right in front of me, that ATC sees and that ATC is talking to and that are participating with ATC, that aren't on the fish finder.
Aircraft with active mode C may not show up on TCAS......