Accident report on the midair at Tenino

Jeff wrote:

speaking of mid-air's, thursday while flying into phoenix area (FFZ), while over
deer valley airport, my TCAS went off (the wife)...she was getting
all excited...so I make a hard turn and ask her if he was going to hit us, and
she was like no, I just thought you wanted to know that he was down there,
he is gone now.
I almost threw her out of the airplane and told her to walk for now on.

the way she was saying he was below us I thought he was climbing up right under
us.

Maybe that's why "TCAS units" need to talk to one another, and why
specific training, plus experience, is required to deal properly
with their warnings.



Jack