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From: fawcett@dalcs.UUCP (Barry Fawcett)
Newsgroups: net.aviation
Subject: TCA
Message-ID: <1528@dalcs.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 28-Jun-85 09:03:54 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun 28 09:03:54 1985
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Organization: Dalhousie University, Halifax, N.S., Canada
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this article is posted for greg roberts (dalcsug!roberts).please
mail replies directly to him .

In response to Brent Callaghan's article, if you are squawking 1200 then
the controller knows you are VFR, and the responsibility to stay beneath
the floor is up to you. Controllers have very little access to Height
Finding Radar, and the controller will assume that you are below TCA and
move his heavy traffic accordingly. I have had six years of experience
flying in the L.A. area, all VFR (whenever possible, occasional IFR for
departure), and the rules are if its bigger than you, move. The charts
are explicit. If you are VFR, you must have your head on a swivel to start
with, so it only makes sense that if the controller is going to assume that
you are below a certain altitude, then it behooves you to be there. Otherwise
it could be tinfoil time.


Clear Skies

Greg Roberts
Dalhousie University