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On Sun, 30 Jul 2006 17:01:33 GMT, Ed Rasimus
wrote in :: On Sun, 30 Jul 2006 11:35:46 -0500, "Jim Macklin" wrote: True, but often they have an AWACS or military ground radar. No kidding? They also often have their own radar and have been trained to look at it and interpret it with greater detail than following an up/down arrow on a TCAS. Unfortunately, military pilots often have their on-board radar set to reject slow moving targets like light GA aircraft, so it isn't being used for collision avoidance with civil aircraft. That should change. They've also been trained to provide their own separation and to operate in areas without the all-seeing/all-knowing motherliness of Air Traffic Control. Some have;some haven't: Civil aircraft to the right of military aircraft: http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/brief.asp?e...26X00109&key=1 F-16s lacked required ATC clearance: http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/brief.asp?e...12X22313&key=1 A6 pilot expected to exit MTR eight minutes after route closu http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/brief.asp?e...11X12242&key=1 A6 hit glider that had right of way: http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/brief.asp?e...13X33340&key=1 Nevertheless as Mr. Dighera incessantly points out, "stuff" happens-- If I infer your intent correctly, the 'stuff' to which you euphemistically refer are the deaths of civil pilots due to being impaled in midair collisions by high-speed, low-level military aircraft often on MTR runs. but it ain't murder. Some are, and some aren't. But the military's miserable record in reprimanding its airmen who wrongfully kill innocent pilots, and shortsighted safety initiatives are pathetic. You've got to agree, that rocketing through congested terminal airspace at 500 knots without the required ATC clearance, lopping 9' of wingtip from a glider with an A6, and failing to see and avoid a crop duster are manslaughter, which is called Third Degree Murder in Florida. |
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