PositionAndHold
Well-Known Member
TCAS, while not an exact science is a great tool to have in your SA bag. I've never used it to decrease separation I've used it to increase it. Today as a matter a fact. Going into SUN, we'd been following a CE-650 for the past 20 mins or so and he was always about 2-3,000ft lower and about 15 miles as we were descending. I heard him cancel through 18k and we did the same a min or two later. I could tell we had been slowly creeping up on them, so I slowed a bit squared the turn a little more than normal across the valley. Picked him up visually when we were on a high downwind and he was on a mile and a half final. It worked out perfect. He was taxiing in back as we were landing. Did it relieve me of looking out for him or other traffic out the window? No, not at all, again it's just another piece of the bigger SA picture. I'm definitely no Chuck Yeager (heard he was an ass any way) and some days it's amazing I even know how to start the thing, but its the little techniques that can make everyone's job a little bit easier.