Close Calls (from the archive)

[okami]

Hi all,

As I'm migrating the larger share of my files, I encountered a couple of shots I'd forgotten about. I'm sure everybody here has had a moment or two like these, though.

The first shot was during my Bealine 140 flight from Nice to Rome/Ciampino. On my first approach to the airport I had to overshoot as there was a Dakota on the runway. ATC guided me onto a missed approach pattern - much to my horror straight into the approach pattern to Fiumicino. Here's me having a close call with a Sabena DC-6B (probably SN699)...



Much more frightening, though, was following encounter during my Northeast 343 flight with a Cessna (or is it a Luscombe?). I got a proximity warning from ATC, but before I could take any evasive action, the little b*** came buzzing past. Most puzzling was the fact we were at the exactly same altitude despite being on opposite courses; as I was at the right altitude and under IFR conditions, he must have been at least 500 feet off his own altitude...



Anybody else has had moments like these...?

[Tom/CalClassic]

Oh yeah - I almost got creamed by a PSA DC-4 on my way from San Diego to LA.

[dave mcqueen]

Only in the real world IFR in a rain storm when on an ILS final to runway 30 at San Jose a Cessna crossed our approach course so close the pilot had to make a sudden maneuver and then hope the crunching sound didn't happen. I was in the jump seat. Many expletives deleted on that cockpit voice tape.

[sunny9850]

Real life I had a few close ones, usually at non-towered fields with people that do not pay attention either taxiin out onto the active as I am on short - short final.
One guy in a C-172 confused right with left and ended up "just" ahead of my Saratoga on the ILS into Chino with rather exited calls from the guy in the tower to me to break off the approach and to the Cessna to copy a phone number. At that point my safety pilot had already taken the airplane out of the danger zone.

In the sim it is usually the AI airplanes flying on the LOC behind me that scare me the most. Usually I keep the GS one dot low so they can pass safely under me ince they do not match their speed to a slower airplane ahead.

Stefan

[acourt]

I've had a few in real life...Some fine individual in a Beechjet bungled onto my runway at Chicago-Midway as I was accelerating through 60 knots in a Saab. An ATA 757 cut me off in the pattern while circling to 22L at Midway. And a few months back some highly competent Center controller pushed me into a TCAS resolution advisory at FL340 against a Republic EMB 170.

In FS, I usually have a near miss sitting at the gate with AI traffic running! Kaboom! ;D

Al