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The fog of being an epauletted pilot and not having time to look out the window when on a visual approach.
No.
No.
what that "aviation content" miner doesn't understand is that signal boosting these nothingburgers does nothing but galvanize the sentiment that piston lawnmowers are a threat to the mouthbreathing public's entitlement to reserved flying bus lanes.
For someone who claims to be passionate about aviation, his actions run counter to that spirit. But I don't believe the premise anyways, he's just another underwater basketweaving surplus cog looking for a monetizable shtick in the gig economy. I'm almost sympathetic tbh.
In the end, don't take aviation advice from laptop class cogs whose formal education is a BA in islamic world studies... from a catholic university no less lol.
Jesus, I thought you were just speaking in hyperbole about the author. Nope.No.
what that "aviation content" miner doesn't understand is that signal boosting these nothingburgers does nothing but galvanize the sentiment that piston lawnmowers are a threat to the mouthbreathing public's entitlement to reserved flying bus lanes.
For someone who claims to be passionate about aviation, his actions run counter to that spirit. But I don't believe the premise anyways, he's just another underwater basketweaving surplus cog looking for a monetizable shtick in the gig economy. I'm almost sympathetic tbh.
In the end, don't take aviation advice from laptop class cogs whose formal education is a BA in islamic world studies... from a catholic university no less lol.
Looks to me like ATC turned an airliner directly at traffic outside ATC's airspace that ATC wasn't talking to and the airliner didn't have in sight. The Cessna chose an inopportune time to turn around, but that America flight was going to get pretty close regardless.
Seconds later, AA pilot reported airport in sight, 7nm out.
If it's pipeline it won't make that big of an impact.
Even if the AA pilot had the airplane in sight before he got the RA once the RA happens he has to follow it. That's because what happened with the PSA crew in the San Diego crash. They mistook another aircraft for the one that eventually had the midair with. So if TCAS starts providing an RA it has to be followed no matter what.
I had a similar experience getting vectored all around their airspace on the way back from Padre to DFW while on flight following. They either need to petition the FAA for a big B or be happy with what they have. But taking airliners down to the bottom of the shelf when there are Cessnas flying right under it is on ATC. And they should know better than expecting those airline pilots to look out the window.
There’s a thread on the Reddit ATC sub about this incident. Several AUS controllers posted that they basically despise “entitled” VFR pilots.
Correct, but if he would’ve kept him at 2,500 and extended him slightly, would’ve been no factor. He was basically playing chicken with the VFR by descending AAL to 2,000.
This anecdote is exactly the reason I have the animus I have with that unearned arrogant TRACON. It's a known quantity and has been for years, especially as that town got too big for its britches and the airline volume ramped up.
Yikes, I'm surprised they didn't keep up the pretense. There it is. It's not just VFR non-revenue traffic, you should hear the screeds they've given us .mil folks on frequency. It's a very airline-centering TRACON, when they're not trying to kill them too, that is.
The thread in r/atc is really enlightening. There's a bunch of controllers saying they do this all the time, pilots saying this is why they're hated and controllers eager to banish GA from the skies. Those controllers may not be representative, but one might conclude there's a culture problem at AUS.
I'm sure you don't, but these guys did, and plenty others are probably proud to brag on social media about how they're too busy to look for gliders and bug smashers. I'm curious how many you spot when you're VFR and you don't get a traffic call. Around here is probably near none that do.
Love to.
Well It goes back controllers wanting VFRs up their freq for FF. They want that because they because they want to restrict what the VFR does to make life easier. In this case, you can bet they wanted the C182 up the freq to either vector him clear of the corridor, or restricted him to a lower altitude.
No thank you. In this case in AUS, it could result in a PD, as I noted he was not under the shelf for part of his flight around the C. However, if I'm not IN the C or B, or ATA, I'm not talking to anyone. Hard to give me a PD when I'm a 1200 mode C in class E or G. There's a guy sitting at a scope, with a bunch of tapes(old school! lolz) he's moving through indian country. So, for the well being of everyone, the big metal tube fliers need to have their head out when transiting MY airspace. And - we'll all get along famously.
I've heard controllers say many times that they want me on FF to make everyone's life easier. Of course sometimes you'll get these clowns:
That's the other 10%....
I regularly make a run from MRB-HWY-W75 that brings me under the IAD class B by a few hundred feet and right by the SFRA by about 2 miles. Never talked to anyone. When I first started making it, 30 years ago, the class B controller blew me off and I never tried again. I’ve made that run hundreds of times.
No, they didn’t.
Who didn't what?
