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By James Chan
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#1483070
Well, if the airspace were Class E + TMZ (USA style) below the TMA, then the events would have been very different.
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By matthew_w100
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I read "He had an IFR flight plan filed for controlled airspace but this was unexpectedly cancelled by ATC without prior warning. " as meaning the cancellation occurred while the M20 was in the air, rather than before the flight started. So not "rejected or lost in the system". Does this happen often?
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By GrahamB
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Tall_Guy_In_a_PA28 wrote:Based only on the information in the report it seems to me that if both pilots had relied entirely on 'big sky theory' rather than TAS and RADAR derived information, they would have passed each other no closer than 0.5 mile laterally and at least 200ft vertically, blissfully unaware of each other.


As it is, the 'big sky theory' still worked.