"Steven P. McNicoll" wrote:


Actually, it is you that is fooling yourself, when you imagine you know
something about air traffic procedures. The situation described in this
thread called for a traffic advisory and a safety alert, not merging target
procedures.

That's the policy created by a bunch of inward thinking idiots at FAA
Headquarters (ATP). That doesn't mean that application of merging target
procedures before it gets to a traffic advisory, then safety alert, whouldn't
be more prudent.