ATSB prelim report vid on The Oaks mid-air.

[Garfly]

 

 

 

[turboplanner]

What does this relate to?

[Thruster88]

I would appear that the Cessna 182 intended a landing at the oaks and had joined the down wind for runway 36. Why there were no comms from the 182 will probably never be known. Radio failure, wrong frequency, it may have given the pilots a false sense of security hearing nothing on the ctaf.

 

Not a fan of left and right circuits like we now have at cowra on 15-33 with all traffic to the west potentially going head to head. Traffic on a screen, could be a life saver or three.

[skippydiesel]

We will never know why the C182, with two experienced pilots on board, was;

 

Not calling on or apparently monitoring, The Oaks CTAF.

At circuit height.

If joining, was doing so on 36, opposite to established traffic on 18 (including the Jab he collided with).

 

His transceiver had been working, minutes earlier, on the Camden frequency - failed to switch over? selected wrong frequency? failure? (unlikly).

It was a Saturday morning in reasonable weather (moderate turbulence at altitude), normally busy with small aircraft movements,  why did the C180 pilots not think it was strange that they had no comms with The Oaks (which shars 126.7 with nearby Mittagong).

The Jab had a SkyEcho2, presumably the C180 had a operational transponder (would have been required to enter Camden airspace) how did ATC not see the two aircraft on a collision course?

How did the Jab pilot not "see" the C180 with his SE2 on iPad?

How did none of the 3 pilots see the other aircraft?

 

So many questions, that will never be answered - very sad for all.