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Say Again? #35: Lessons Unlearned
The National Airspace System has lots of redundancies; and some would say that takes more effort than is necessary. Why fly on airways when direct can be faster? Why read back the entire clearance or radio frequency change when you can just give your callsign? AVweb’s Don Brown tells of a time when a perfect storm of at least 11 separate, small errors built up to bring two planes mere feet from each other at high speed.
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Key Takeaways:
- The article emphasizes the critical importance of redundancies within the National Airspace System (NAS), which some pilots may view as excessive.
- It cautions against the dangers of neglecting established aviation procedures for the sake of perceived efficiency (e.g., flying direct instead of airways, abbreviated readbacks).
- A "perfect storm" incident is recounted where 11 seemingly minor errors accumulated, nearly causing a high-speed collision between two aircraft.
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