Fri Jun 11, 2021 5:35 am
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Thought long and hard about posting this.
It’s important no one mentions EC in this thread.
I’ve had a look through the CAP/ANO index and can’t find anything.
What’s the correct avoiding action if you’re going to hit another plane in the air in a head on situation.
Turn right? Turn left?
I know about “on the right, in the right”, and “go behind”, (though can’t find it), that doesn’t really work head on.
Want to find what we should do, and I want to publicise it.
Had a bit of an incident, need to file an MOR, think there’s some learning points.
I think what happened was I turned right and he turned left. Seeing I’d turned right, he carried on rolling to inverted and pulled and went under me inverted and descending.
Time had already slowed down and I had pulled to climb.
Something small and aerobatic. I saw him about 5 to 10 seconds out. He must have seen me that late, or he’d have avoided me earlier.
I was distracted with passenger questions and had stopped looking out.
My passenger said he came round to our right afterwards and flew a parallel track for a bit, only told me that when he’d turned round and gone. I didn’t spot him afterwards, I was looking behind, not off the wingtips.
I want to know what I should have done.
(Other than cleaning the windscreen and keeping a better lookout)
Nearly gave up flying when I landed, has taken me a few days of thinking, still not sure how I feel.
I’m going to have a ring around, see if I can find the pilot, happened in the evening, near a few airfields where aerobatic types are known to operate. Just to compare recollections if we can.
It’s important no one mentions EC in this thread.
I’ve had a look through the CAP/ANO index and can’t find anything.
What’s the correct avoiding action if you’re going to hit another plane in the air in a head on situation.
Turn right? Turn left?
I know about “on the right, in the right”, and “go behind”, (though can’t find it), that doesn’t really work head on.
Want to find what we should do, and I want to publicise it.
Had a bit of an incident, need to file an MOR, think there’s some learning points.
I think what happened was I turned right and he turned left. Seeing I’d turned right, he carried on rolling to inverted and pulled and went under me inverted and descending.
Time had already slowed down and I had pulled to climb.
Something small and aerobatic. I saw him about 5 to 10 seconds out. He must have seen me that late, or he’d have avoided me earlier.
I was distracted with passenger questions and had stopped looking out.
My passenger said he came round to our right afterwards and flew a parallel track for a bit, only told me that when he’d turned round and gone. I didn’t spot him afterwards, I was looking behind, not off the wingtips.
I want to know what I should have done.
(Other than cleaning the windscreen and keeping a better lookout)
Nearly gave up flying when I landed, has taken me a few days of thinking, still not sure how I feel.
I’m going to have a ring around, see if I can find the pilot, happened in the evening, near a few airfields where aerobatic types are known to operate. Just to compare recollections if we can.
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