No. of Recommendations: 2
And here's the VAS video of the earlier incident:
YouTube: TCAS Avoided Collision with Army Helicopter Over Potomac River (VASAviation -)This time the Army helo's call sign is PAT11, and he's warned by the controller that Southwest 3565 is landing on runway 19. PAT11 requests visual separation and that's granted. The tower calls SW3565 and warns them of a helicopter in their flight path.
Some things to note here- notice how the helicopter's altimeter reading keeps jumping up and down. They're supposed to stay at 200 feet but right before the TCAS alarm goes off he's at 300feet. PAT25 IIRC did the same thing.
CA is shown with Southwest 3565.
Another flight coming into land, callsign Brickyard 4514 has its TCAS go off. The pilot calls the tower and indicates they're going around. PAT11 had ascended all the way to
700 feet at that time.
If they're going to fly right through the landing pattern these helicopters need to be staying well below the glide envelope. This is crazy.
And if you watch the video all the way to the end, you see this same helicopter have another alert with yet another plane!
