killbilly
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This was weird...
Departed KAUS this afternoon around 16:00 local, took off from 35R, got an immediate turn to 310 to head out toward AQO.
Departure calls traffic - a 737 - I start looking. It's hazy as hell and I can't see him. Bumpy, too - it's more than light chop but less than moderate turb. I don't see the 737, I let em' know, Departure comes back and says no factor. Okay, fine. Continue climbing to 3500.
Around 3,000 they call an RJ. I start looking...I see him right as he sees me, he calls me in sight, passes to the south of me. No biggie. Departure tells me to resume own nav, climb to 4500. Okay, cool.
About 3 minutes later I look up. I'm guessing about 1500-2000 feet above me there is a jet - not sure what kind - RJ, I think, and headed directly at me. I'm surprised, level a bit as he passes over. Departure calls me out to him, he says, "Yeah, got an RA..." (I'm guessing on the vertical separation - still learning to estimate distances in the air)
I was under the impression that an RA was a bad thing. Did I screw up? No one told me I goofed or anything, so I'm assuming I didn't. And neither Departure nor the RJ sounded particularly annoyed. It just surprised me.
So what happened? Did I cause an RA?
(Unrelated side note - just about every make and model of corporate aircraft was on the ramp at KAUS today. Apparently the Arkansas-UT game was a huge draw - the ramp was packed to the gills with all sorts of jets, t-props, and a fair amount of Cirruses and 182s. But the icing on the cake was a Marine AH-1 Cobra which came in and landed at Signature. That thing was waaaaaay cool. )
Departed KAUS this afternoon around 16:00 local, took off from 35R, got an immediate turn to 310 to head out toward AQO.
Departure calls traffic - a 737 - I start looking. It's hazy as hell and I can't see him. Bumpy, too - it's more than light chop but less than moderate turb. I don't see the 737, I let em' know, Departure comes back and says no factor. Okay, fine. Continue climbing to 3500.
Around 3,000 they call an RJ. I start looking...I see him right as he sees me, he calls me in sight, passes to the south of me. No biggie. Departure tells me to resume own nav, climb to 4500. Okay, cool.
About 3 minutes later I look up. I'm guessing about 1500-2000 feet above me there is a jet - not sure what kind - RJ, I think, and headed directly at me. I'm surprised, level a bit as he passes over. Departure calls me out to him, he says, "Yeah, got an RA..." (I'm guessing on the vertical separation - still learning to estimate distances in the air)
I was under the impression that an RA was a bad thing. Did I screw up? No one told me I goofed or anything, so I'm assuming I didn't. And neither Departure nor the RJ sounded particularly annoyed. It just surprised me.
So what happened? Did I cause an RA?
(Unrelated side note - just about every make and model of corporate aircraft was on the ramp at KAUS today. Apparently the Arkansas-UT game was a huge draw - the ramp was packed to the gills with all sorts of jets, t-props, and a fair amount of Cirruses and 182s. But the icing on the cake was a Marine AH-1 Cobra which came in and landed at Signature. That thing was waaaaaay cool. )