Southwest TCAS “fighter jet”

Yeah, was the fighter a faux foe for US fighters, or some pay-to-play operation?
 
The Hawker flight appears to have been a straight-forward flight from El Paso to Oxnard.
 
TCABM said:
These 121 guys are getting to be pretty dangerous.
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"The jet crossed less than two miles in front of it, and within a few hundred feet of its altitude ..."

Close but no cigar! :drool:
 
I don’t know the setup, but having the map to scale, traffic awareness, then VSI adjustment as needed usually mitigates any problems. BWTHDIK
 
It can be with a late minute reversal from climb to descend.
 
Larry in TN said:
On the 737, a TCAS RA displays pitch guidance to fly to comply with the RA. It should not be a violent manuever.

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When Southwest reported the RA to the Center he said he had the traffic in sight. Can’t tell for sure if he had already seen it, or acquired it during the RA. This didn’t start with Southwest level, he was in a climb. The traffic was above and in a descent. Maybe he wasn’t paying real close attention to the panel while he was nosing it over. Maybe, I dunno. But it brings up some questions. The pic you show is the I’ll call it the Flight Director, probably wrong word. I wonder if maybe it told him to just stop climbing, is the TCAS wired into the Flight Director thing? Maybe it was his decision to descend. And while we’re there on that, what about throttles. By that time on that departure maybe he’s doing a coupla thou a minute. Would ya pull the throttles back when you nosed it down? And what about the auto pilot? Does it get involved in this? Auto throttle?
 
luvflyin said:
The pic you show is the I’ll call it the Flight Director, probably wrong word. I wonder if maybe it told him to just stop climbing, is the TCAS wired into the Flight Director thing? Maybe it was his decision to descend. And while we’re there on that, what about throttles. By that time on that departure maybe he’s doing a coupla thou a minute. Would ya pull the throttles back when you nosed it down? And what about the auto pilot? Does it get involved in this? Auto throttle?
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The flight director and autopilot are disengaged in the picture.

The TCAS RA command is the red lines. It is commanding that you keep the pitch attitude outside of the areas defined by the red lines. In the picture, the commanded range is between about 2º AND and 12º ANU.

When an RA is received, the flying-pilot disconnects the autothrottle and autopilot and hand-flies the RA. Pitch to the commanded range and adjust power as required to maintain the desired airspeed.

TCAS software calculates the RA with the expectation that the pilot will respond within 5 seconds with a g-load change of 0.25g. In a reversal or increase rate RA that increases to 0.35g with a response time of 2-1/2 seconds.
 
Larry in TN said:
The flight director and autopilot are disengaged in the picture.

The TCAS RA command is the red lines. It is commanding that you keep the pitch attitude outside of the areas defined by the red lines. In the picture, the commanded range is between about 2º AND and 12º ANU.

When an RA is received, the flying-pilot disconnects the autothrottle and autopilot and hand-flies the RA. Pitch to the commanded range and adjust power as required to maintain the desired airspeed.

TCAS software calculates the RA with the expectation that the pilot will respond within 5 seconds with a g-load change of 0.25g. In a reversal or increase rate RA that increases to 0.35g with a response time of 2-1/2 seconds.
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Thx.
 
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