Word: misses
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Stoppard, the author of "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead" and "The Real Thing," delivered the John M. Olin Lecture in Science Center C as part of the Distiguished Lecturer Series. In the past two years, the series has hosted Richard Rodriguez and Miss Manners...
...automatic snitch may make it appear that the skies are growing more dangerous because more reports are being filed. In the past, say some pilots, regional offices of the FAA often failed to pass near-miss reports along to Washington because they wanted to tell their bosses only what headquarters wanted to hear: that the system is safe...
...each other vertically were considered too close, and the incident had to be reported; now the vertical-separation standard is just 500 ft. Under an accurate system, this change should produce fewer, not more, close-call reports. Some pilots object to this reduction in the near-miss distance, noting that if two airliners are six miles apart but headed toward each other at 550 m.p.h., they could collide in 20 seconds...
There are indications that some controllers may be cheating the snitch system to avoid the burden of paperwork and explanations. The FAA investigated a near miss on Feb. 16 between a Sky West Airlines flight and a private Beech Bonanza near Santa Barbara, Calif. The planes had come within five miles, but the snitch was not triggered. The investigators discovered that a controller had dropped the Bonanza from his screen in the belief that there was no real chance of a collision despite the proximity of the two aircraft. This action, reported the FAA, "disabled the computer's ability...
...whether to swerve left or right, the escape maneuver considered safer by pilots. That will come in the FAA's TCAS III system, which is at least two years off, and perhaps as many as five. But, says Engen, "wouldn't you rather go down or up, and miss, rather than sit around for two more years to go left and right? I've told those guys, let's get a TCAS II in operation, and let's get on with...