Avoidance Rule

[Chris Larson]

Kurt-
Good point.  The caller has better eyes on the total scenario than we do.
They would be better suited to make the call, from a strictly safety aspect.
Just out of curiosity, in 28 IMAC contests with one midair how many
"AVOIDANCE" calls were made?  The calls to crash ratio is would be of
interest in the discussion.  That being said, saving a plane is obviously
better than a zero on the maneuver or sequence.
Chris Larson
NSRCA 3484
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kurt Koelling" <koelling.1 at osu.edu>
To: <discussion at nsrca.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 7:30 PM
Subject: Re: Avoidance Rule


> When I am flying in an IMAC contest I tell my caller to watch the other
> plane just as much as he/she watches my own plane. Often my caller is the
> one that actually calls an avoidance for me because it is not possible for
> me to watch the other plane. By the time I see the other plane it is often
> too late to make a correction. However, if the caller is watching the
paths
> of both planes (and warns the pilot in advance) many midairs can be
> avoided.  Here is my not so scientific data, but data none the less...  In
> the past three years I have flown in 28 IMAC contests and I only observed
> one midair.  The rule really does seem to work.
> Kurt Koelling
>
> *****************************************
> At 08:44 AM 1/30/2003 -0600, you wrote:
> I'm not disagreeing, Croz, but here is my observation from limited
> experience. I've seen several midairs at contests, unfortunately. Each
time
> was such a shock that no one saw it coming. In only one case (at the now
> infamous Temple 2001 where 7 planes were lost in one contest) were the
> planes even flying in the same direction. But even here, neither pilot saw
> the other until it was too late. Others of us did, but there wasn't much
we
> could do in the split second before.
> I'm curious to know is this is really beneficial in IMAC
> --Lance
>
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