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Originally Posted by TFaudree_ERAU  You can't issue a "maintain visual separation, [insert conditional instruction here]" without actually seeing the hunk of metal outside the windscreen with your eyes, right? Only having them on TCAS should be treated just the same as being in the soup with no visual contact. |
We can only use visual if the pilot visually sees him and in the case of the A/C climbing the pilot agrees that he can maintain visual separation from the traffic he has in sight.
Seeing the traffic on the "fish finder" or the dozen or so other terms I have heard used cannot be used for visual separation.