Recommendation R20040020

Aviation safety issues and actions

Recommendation issued to: Civil Aviation Safety Authority

Recommendation details
Output No: R20040020
Date issued: 13 January 2004
Safety action status:
Background:

Limitations of the See-and-Avoid Principle

The following recommendations were issued as part of the BASI Research Report - "Limitations of the See-and-Avoid Principle", 1991. At the time of the issue of that report the six recommendations were not assigned formal recommendation numbers. To facilitate publication of the recommendations and the responses to them, they have been entered into the OASIS database. As a result, the recommendation numbers assigned to them do not reflect the actual recommendation issue date, rather the date that they were entered.

Output text

Safety Recommendation

Pilots should recognise that they cannot rely entirely on vision to avoid collisions. Consequently, they should attempt to obtain all available traffic information, whether from Air Traffic Services or a listening watch, to enable them to conduct a directed traffic search.

Initial response
Date issued: 29 April 1998
Response from: Civil Aviation Safety Authority
Action status: Closed - Accepted
Response text:

CASA agrees with both the above recommendations. However CASA believes that the limitations have been promoted to the extent that benefits of the visual system may have become seriously discounted. As a consequence, CASA will continue to emphasise the requirement to be vigilant.
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