You are too kind.
The one with the group photo of all the Mods, I hope!
You are too kind.
You are quite right of course. Mark 1 eyeball is clearly the first and final arbiter when it comes to turning final for an aircraft flying VFR (and anywhere else)! The advent of the glass cockpit piston engine aircraft is a mixed blessing, methinks, the downside being that all that beautiful information, and the wonderful magenta line, inclines some to focus on the gizzrometry, and focus on that rather, than looking out!Boac wrote: ↑Sat May 15, 2021 7:22 amMy entry for a TOP T-Shirt (see TGG post #19) is that whoever taught the Cirrus pilot to fly should have taught him to look-out, particularly when turning onto finals VFR.
I recall many yonks ago being in the RHS of a Dan 737-200 with steely Captain turning right base onto visual finals Agadir easterly, and my 'looking out' to see a single piston directly below us also on finals. He cleared by Agadir for ILS and we for visual without a mention of...... I reckon 200ft or less separation.
+1Boac wrote: ↑Sun May 16, 2021 2:18 pmIt were an absolutely CLASSIC Swiss Cheese, with stupid aerodrome design and procedures (only in the US!), ATC errors and omissions, the Cirrus Crew not looking out, the Key Lime pilot not 'looking out' on a visual final and the geometry of the closure rendering visual avoidance extremely difficult.
Everyone was so lucky it worked out as it did once they dinged. Just look at the possibilities - a different single, pax/crew in the Key Lime, tail falls off the Key Lime or control otherwise lost, Cirrus crashes in a built-up area. Probably more.