John Smith wrote:
In article
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"Robert M. Gary" wrote:

On Jul 14, 7:49 am, Gig 601Xl Builder
wrote:

I'm hardly a military basher but in this case the civilian pilot did try
to see an avoid and that is what caused the problem. He was listening to
his TCAS and doing what it said. The F16 pilot should have realized this
when the civilian started maneuvering and broken off the intercept.
Yea, it would seem that the only see-and-avoid you can fault the
civilian pilot with is not having the capability to out perform the
F-16 as he tried to escape the collision alert.

I fail to see how a 90-degree clearing turn would not have brought the
threat into view and provided an escape to resolve the TCAS warning.

I've not flown with a TCAS so if I'm wrong somebody please tell me.

But it's my understanding that if the TCAS give a Climb alert you are
supposed to climb.

In this case in particular a 90 deg turn might have put him right dead
center in front of a much faster jet and caused an collision.

I don't have a problem with fighters practicing intercepts with civilian
aircraft in an MOA but the pilot in question didn't show the good since
to see that his actions were causing the civilian plane to respond and
he didn't break off the intercept. I wonder if this Lt. even knew that
some civilian aircraft had things like TCAS in them.