Beyond belief. And yet:-
“Passing 1,300 ft on a straight in approach to runway 25 at Albury Airport in visual meteorological conditions, the flight crew of the ATR 72 received a traffic collision avoidance system alert on the PA-28, which was turning final for runway 25. The flight crew of the ATR 72 conducted a missed approach to increase separation between the two aircraft.”
I would like to see a transcript of all radio communications; just for a start. “Suddenly, out of nowhere a Cherokee materialised in front of our aircraft” Bullshit.
Once again the spectre of piss poor airmanship from yet another Virgin ATR crew emerges. Think about it – TCAS would flag the traffic; local VHF frequency would be used to sort of a sequence; was this crew another ‘asleep at the wheel’ episode? Every day at hundreds of non controlled aerodromes; turbo prop transport aircraft and ‘other’ aircraft manage to sort out their timing and self separate. We’ve all done it – widen the circuit, extend downwind, overfly and follow – any one of the dozen options – with or without TCAS employed on a daily basis to avoid the ‘suddenly our windscreen was filled with an aircraft’ excuse.
I can wait the mandatory three years for the ATSB to polish up the PR press release. Seems passing strange that only the Virgin ATR fleet, out of the entire turbine fleet providing public transport seem to have these on going ‘operating’ problems; it is quite a list now. There is little excuse for this one.
Toot – toot.
“Passing 1,300 ft on a straight in approach to runway 25 at Albury Airport in visual meteorological conditions, the flight crew of the ATR 72 received a traffic collision avoidance system alert on the PA-28, which was turning final for runway 25. The flight crew of the ATR 72 conducted a missed approach to increase separation between the two aircraft.”
I would like to see a transcript of all radio communications; just for a start. “Suddenly, out of nowhere a Cherokee materialised in front of our aircraft” Bullshit.
Once again the spectre of piss poor airmanship from yet another Virgin ATR crew emerges. Think about it – TCAS would flag the traffic; local VHF frequency would be used to sort of a sequence; was this crew another ‘asleep at the wheel’ episode? Every day at hundreds of non controlled aerodromes; turbo prop transport aircraft and ‘other’ aircraft manage to sort out their timing and self separate. We’ve all done it – widen the circuit, extend downwind, overfly and follow – any one of the dozen options – with or without TCAS employed on a daily basis to avoid the ‘suddenly our windscreen was filled with an aircraft’ excuse.
I can wait the mandatory three years for the ATSB to polish up the PR press release. Seems passing strange that only the Virgin ATR fleet, out of the entire turbine fleet providing public transport seem to have these on going ‘operating’ problems; it is quite a list now. There is little excuse for this one.
Toot – toot.