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F-16, Cessna planes crash in Berkeley County, Charleston SC, fire officials say
The Berkeley County Fire Department says two planes have crash-landed near Old Highway 52 at Lewisfield Plantation. (www.wyff4.com) 기타...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
For me, I am going to double down on my flight following and awArneess of MTRs. I have minimal experience checking with FSS about MTR activity but we have one right over my house. Several F16s going over the other day. Called FSS. They knew nothing about them. I have ADSB in as well as most of my friends. However the FAA is blocking traffic as an inducement to install ADSB out. Perhaps they could reconsider this.
It's not that they're "blocking traffic," but rather that the system has a very strange design. It reportedly doesn't have enough bandwidth to do all of the retransmitting it needs to do (because they weirdly allow broadcasts on both 978 and 1090), so they compute a service volume around each participating aircraft and send out information about targets just in that cylinder.
Without ADS-B Out, the system doesn't know where to compute the service volume, so it can't send the traffic information.
I agree with you about the sometimes sketchy data about MTR usage.
Without ADS-B Out, the system doesn't know where to compute the service volume, so it can't send the traffic information.
I agree with you about the sometimes sketchy data about MTR usage.
I know a bit about bandwidth. Most wi-fi cable modems (think cable TV) are intentionally slow to save bandwidth. I use an ethernet cable instead. They don't want you to do that because it sucks up a ton of bandwidth. I was told that my installer was not allowed to use a cable. I went from about 36MBPS to about 90MBPS and I'm paying for 36. . Sounds like the FAA has the same problem.
You need to read my earlier post about a GA aircraft crossing the ILS final. Approach washed their hands and simply "we're not talking to him". Fighters have a full Mode C transponder but sometimes turn it of during exercises. They don't want to give away their position. This is dangerous in a non combat scenario and in civilian open airspace. In my part 121 commercial flying I got TCAS on lots of military planes. I conclude the fighter was in radar contact and in comm with the ATC approach control. However, ATC has no obligation to point out all other VFR traffic. It's see and avoid. If you read the CFR's (I don't have a good context) but they state that ATC will only provide separation between known IFR traffic. The Garmin line of glass cockpits have the capability to alert the pilot of all traffic with a transponder and squawking. If this Cessna had any kind of traffic alerting, this accident would not have happened. Same goes for the fighter. This is 2015. Step up to the the advances in technology.
OK guys--one more story for you. This is real and not made up. On final in a commercial turboprop, on an IFR flight plan in contact with ATC and cleared for an ILS in basically VFR conditions. My TCAS goes off with "traffic, traffic". There's another aircraft at 10 o'clock and proceeding to cross the ILS final. When I told approach control, they said "we're not talking with him". Well fine and dandy. Wash your hands of him and don't advise. Thanks to TCAS we were able to see and avoid.
Peter, you're still correct. ATC flight following for VFR, when available (which is almost always), may be our most important protection against collisions!