Comment by yuliyp
7 months ago
The ADS-B transponder tells other planes where you are. It doesn't tell you where the other planes are. Turning it off when there are civilian planes doesn't improve your ability to aviate. it just hurts the situational awareness of the civilian planes who aren't supposed to be learning how to fight.
ADS-B goes both directions - you can broadcast, and you can listen. In this case, having it on would've told the Blackhawk crew a plane was way closer than they thought, even if the Blackhawk had broadcasting off.
This sounds very strange:
- What combat situation will require a military aircraft to be flying 30 meters from civilian jet doing routine flights?
- i don’t believe that there really is no technical solution to provide awareness to civilians of the presence and location of military aircraft without altering the pilot’s experience
- if it had told the Blackhawk crew a plane was way closer, the crew would still be alive. That’s like the whole point.
I have no expertise or n the area, but I can’t share the feeling that decision making is extremely poor, and sometimes it actually takes an outsider, who is free from groupthink and cope, to see that a decision is stupid.
> What combat situation will require a military aircraft to be flying 30 meters from civilian jet doing routine flights?
Surprise commandeering a civilian airfield in enemy territory.
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> What combat situation will require a military aircraft to be flying 30 meters from civilian jet doing routine flights?
Evacuating leadership during a 9/11 scenario?
> i don’t believe that there really is no technical solution to provide awareness to civilians of the presence and location of military aircraft without altering the pilot’s experience
There is. That’s ADS-B. Which broadcasts your position. So it’s turned off in military aircraft at times, for obvious reasons.
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