Near Miss

[bitchstewie]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshi...

[Chrisgr31]

I must read the Air Accident report in to it, as it seems marginally odd commending the control tower, whose job it presumably is to not let them both land at the same time in the first place.

[essayer]

AGCS, not ATC. The pilots are responsible for their own landing clearances etc.

[hutchst]

BBC said:

The control tower told the higher plane to loop the area again before landing.

Insightful journalism at its finest.

[zombeh]

Chrisgr31 said:

I must read the Air Accident report in to it

"This is why you join the circuit in the same way as everyone else" would be a reasonable summary.

No overhead or deadside joins due to the parachutists so they decided that 1000' above circuit height on a right base in an aeroplane with tiny windows was a good idea. See and Avoid works even at a busy aerodrome because everyone is where you expect them to be and everyone can see the bit of air they're worrying about having something in. It's also a good example of why if you're calling final after someone else has you tell them that you can see them, if they didn't then they're probably in front of you hiding behind your engine.

[48k]

Meat bombers at strips with an AGCS seem to have a particularly unique approach to flying in the circuit and generally following the same rules as everyone else. Headcorn springs to mind.