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tfisher(at)commandergroup
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 Posted: Tue Apr 18, 2006 10:29 am Post subject: Near miss, Vancouver |
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This is the second attempt to send this because the previous Email was rejected as I had "cheap life insurance" in the subject line.
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Happy to see the sunrise again.
Since I obtained my abused 680FLP I have been bringing it up to spec. and was out on a test flight with an engineer setting up the rigging on all the controls.
The wx. was 3000 overcast with rain showers, we were doing a VOR hold at 2500 feet during which we were being feed traffic information of VFR training aircraft below and around us being controlled by another agency for that altitude.
On our last inbound leg, clipping along at 190 with 75% power, the engineer had just finished recording all that had to be recorded.
I advised the controlling agency (radar) that we were ready to return for landing. As I was waiting for the clearance I had my eyes inside to adjust the EGT's (the engineer wanted full rich for the tests) before I got the needles where I wanted them I heard the transmission "traffic".... as soon as the word "traffic" was processed by my brain I looked up and before "12 O'clock" was heard I saw a single-engine Cessna in a steep climbing left turn about 50 feet below me and maybe 1000' in front of me going right to left. I yarded up and to the right on the yoke, yes we missed him, but not by much, I'm sure had we not done the avoidance maneuver we would have clipped him. I'm sure the Cessna never saw us.
Radar apologized profusely siting transponder recognition issues with adjacent controlling agencies.
I since have tested a "PCAS" Portable Collision Avoidance System that is the size of a deck of cards. There are a couple of models of this type out there and it seems to work quite well, this one for under $500. I am getting one; I am also going to try a get funding to supply one for each of our search aircraft.
Cheap life insurance.
Tom F.
C-GISS 680FLP (Mr.RPM)
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tfisher(at)commandergroup
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| Posted: Tue Apr 18, 2006 12:00 pm Post subject: Near miss, Vancouver |
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Look up www.flightweb.ca
Click on Collision Avoidance, you will see two units there, I tested the
small one.
Tom F.
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steve2(at)sover.net
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| Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 2:54 am Post subject: Near miss, Vancouver |
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We added last year a Garmin 480/MX20 combo with the Mode S transponder. We
got the TIS-B traffic system because with the aerial survey we do even in
VFR conditions there is a lot of heads-down time. It's like flying an
approach all day.
The TIS-B is pretty neat. The only problem is once in a while there is pop
up traffic so close there's almost no time to do anything about it. The box
warns "Traffic" and scares you silly. Hell, if it's that close maybe it
would be better not to know.
(Joking aside, that usual is happening when someone is closing to within
less than a mile but at a different enough altitude for you to not have seen
them visually. It gets you going though.)
Steve
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