When two aircraft are unknowingly on a collision course, TCAS - the Traffic Collision Avoidance System — comes alive. Alarms echo through the cockpit as the transponders on both jets communicate, ...
— -- Question: Hi captain, is it compulsory to have the TCAS (Traffic Collision and Avoidance System) working within the USA and Europe? Can you explain how it works? — submitted by reader ...
WASHINGTON — The aircraft involved in the mid-air collision earlier this year over Ronald Reagan National Airport lacked certain collision avoidance systems that could have helped an Army helicopter ...