[LINK] Standards, please! The third coming of electric vehicles

[Ivan Trundle]

On 23/04/2012, at 12:17 PM, Ben Elliston wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 11:46:02AM +1000, Ivan Trundle wrote:
> 
>> It makes you wonder how we are capable of avoiding crashes in the
>> first place. And that's just on the ground. In the air, we rely on
>> human brains working together to avoid collisions. Scary stuff.
> 
> As a last resort, in the air, we rely on TCAS.  If I recall correctly,
> pilots are always to follow TCAS and never the instructions of air
> traffic control in such situations.

Only in relation to collisions with other aircraft, and those fitted with a TCAS system (not mandatory in Australia: only in the US). This accounts for less than 5% of crashes, the last of which was in 2006.

iT