At 22:02 14 January 2011, Randy wrote:
Yesterday, while on a 15 mile final in a B777, we
has a Cessna 182 pass 300 feet below us.
We got a traffic alert from ATC and a warning on
our TCAS (Traffic Collision Alert System). This is
very similar to the FLARM. From about 1/2 mile, we
finally had him visually as we flew over him. If the
pilot was looking out his window, there is no way he
could have missed seeing us.

Sure, you're a bigger visual target than a 182, but I still have to
wonder how you could fail to see him from a half mile away, particularly
when you were already told where to look.

And even if he sees you, and you see him, the responsibility to avoid the
conflict applies equally to both aircraft, does it not? Admittedly,
you're landing, and you've got the right of way. But that doesn't give
you the right to run him down.

Jim Beckman