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F-16, Cessna planes crash in Berkeley County, Charleston SC, fire officials say
The Berkeley County Fire Department says two planes have crash-landed near Old Highway 52 at Lewisfield Plantation. (www.wyff4.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Importantly from a legal point of view, flying an MTR does not release a military pilot from see & avoid responsibilities, nor give them exclusive use of the airspace.
Yes, I agree Frank. If a GA airplane wants to cross or fly along an MTR he better contact FSS and find out if it is active. The military puts out a NOTAM if there will be training on that MTR. There are altitude restrictions. The time of beginning and ending are readily available. The military aircraft are busy with timing and accurate positions. They can't be sitting in the cockpit with eyeballs out the window all the time. He dosen't have "exclusive" use of that airspace but if you're little Cessna is there, you are just testing death unless you know it's inactive.
Also the F16 pilot was not operating in IMC, so he had to maintain VFR clearance. The missed approach directions in that area are to climb and maintain 4000. It's been reported the incident happened between 2000 and 3000 feet. It will be interesting to find out the speed of the F16.
Not considering lawyers there's a cold hard reality here of procedures that I hope to learn from. Sadly enough I'm sure there are variations that both pilots could have taken that could have changed the outcome.
I"m not sure the 150 had his transponder on, as the F-16 would have had an alert. Head down doing an approach that is the only way he would have known he had a traffic conflict. just saying!
The F16 pilot isn't allowed to have his head down doing an approach. He is operating in VFR meteorological conditions not in true IFR. The FAR's require someone practicing approaches to stay clear of traffic. Furthermore the F16 wasn't on an approach. Likely he was moving to do his next approach, but the accident didn't happen on any published approach to Charleston or Shaw AFB.
It was stated in news reports that both aircraft had their transponders on. Also the C150 pilot announced that he was taking off.