tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10248241.post5918009615451878801..comments2023-02-16T05:41:44.099-05:00Comments on IMRAN™: In My Humble Opinion: (Out Of Control) Without A Control Tower? - IMRAN™IMRAN™http://www.blogger.com/profile/03919552891874811342noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10248241.post-30386074215970081702016-04-18T23:31:47.057-04:002016-04-18T23:31:47.057-04:00Thank you for always sharing such valuable thought...Thank you for always sharing such valuable thoughts, my dear friend. IMRAN™https://www.blogger.com/profile/03919552891874811342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10248241.post-47131357724645594802016-04-18T18:10:42.347-04:002016-04-18T18:10:42.347-04:00Hi Imran,
Here's the comments of this 2000+hr...Hi Imran,<br /><br />Here's the comments of this 2000+hr pilot:<br /><br />There is no government legislature, no police force, no control tower, <br />no rule book... that has ever prevented stupid, ignorant, callous, <br />inattentive, thoughtless, human behavior. Think of the control tower as <br />being the "local air police." They help with the orderly flow and <br />spacing of airplane traffic, both in the air and on the ground. That <br />doesn't mean they are always absolutely essential... but they definitely<br />are helpful. <br /><br />The accident that was reported didn't say it was a mid-air <br />collision... only a near miss. Then, one of the planes seemed to have <br />lost control and crashed. The description of what happened is somewhat murkey.<br />The loss of control of one plane speaks to the lack of piloting skill of<br />one pilot.<br /><br />In a perfect world, pilots should be talking to each other on their <br />radios at un-controlled (non-towered) fields... announcing their <br />positions in the air-space around the airport and on the ground. <br />However, many aircraft do not have electrical systems and therefore <br />are not "required" to have radios for communication. Pilots fly <br />using Visual Flight Rules... which means they operate in a "see and be <br />seen" environment. Yes! That makes things a substantial degree more <br />dangerous for sure.<br /><br />I usually fly out of non-control towered airports and having my head <br />on a swivel is not an option... it is a MUST!!! But there are times <br />when all the communications in the world does not fix STUPID. One <br />morning as I was on final approach to an un-controlled field just a <br />mile from touching down... a plane seemed to come out of nowhere and <br />cut right in front of me. I had been self-announcing my position in <br />the traffic pattern around the airport so I was expecting anyone in <br />the vicinity would know where to look for me. I saw no one.<br /><br />I narrowly avoided the mid-air collision and when I got on the ground <br />I went over to the pilot and asked him if he had heard me <br />self-announcing? He said "absolutely not!" I then asked him if he was <br />"self-announcing" his positions and he swore to me he had been doing <br />exactly that. So... here you have two pilots doing the right thing and <br />still they weren't communicating. What was going wrong? So I asked <br />that pilot what frequency he was using and when he told me I could <br />have "died." It seems that the "self-announcing frequency" had <br />recently changed and he was using "the old frequency." He had failed <br />to consult the latest charts for the updated change.<br /><br />So... what if this was a towered field? The pilot who had tuned in the <br />wrong frequency on his radio would not have been communicating with <br />the tower. He could just as easily have assumed that the tower was <br />just not operating and proceeded to land anyway. He could have <br />completely missed the "light-gun signals" the tower was flashing him. Duh!<br /><br />All the police in the world won't stop someone from passing a stop <br />sign or a traffic light if they aren't paying attention to the <br />conditions around them. More legislation, more rules and regulations, <br />more police on patrol wouldn't prevent an accident due to humans who <br />aren't giving the driving or flying... their full attention.<br /><br />Not long ago a commercial plane took off on the wrong runway and the <br />control tower operator at the field wasn't paying critical attention <br />to the takeoff very early that dark morning. The plane ran out of <br />runway before it could gain enough altitude. More police or tower <br />controllers aren't the answer.<br /><br />The problem is there are no "perfectly safe" systems as long as people <br />are part of the equations for operating them.<br /><br />JMHO,<br /><br />RogerAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10406682931888793969noreply@blogger.com