Near-miss between FedEx and Southwest flights in Austin

Re:Near-miss between FedEx and Southwest flights in Austin by CPLX on Sunday February 05, 2023 @03:36AM (#34663062)

TCAS is interesting but it’s not really relevant here. It’s something that is applicable to the en-route portion of a flight, when both planes are supposed to be separated by substantial distances while in the sky.

TCAS is useless in the terminal environment, like while landing or taking off. If it wasn’t inhibited (which it is) it would be correctly screaming that there are about to be a dozen airplanes too close for comfort every single time it got near an airport.

It’s a system for avoiding mid-air collisions not stuff like this.

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Re:Near-miss between FedEx and Southwest flights in Austin by fergbrain on Sunday February 05, 2023 @02:16PM (#34667967)

My understanding is that when an aircraft is < 1000 AGL the TCAS would be at Sensitivity Level 2 (SL2) and they would still get Traffic Advisories (but not a Resolution Advisory); and only once landed and the pilot turns off TCAS would they no longer get messages?

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