Originally Posted by
oliver2002
India mandated TCAS on all aircraft in its airspace after the terrible
9Y/SV collision over DEL in 1996. Its alerts the crew of all involved aircraft about to breach the separation minimums of impending 'doom' and advises which corrective action each should take.
What you witnessed was a standard encounter. The airspace over India is very crowded and all follow invisible 'highway' corridors. If you can post the flight you took, I can look up a routing your flight probably took and where the turn is required.
Thanks for the reassurance, folks. I guess I'm just a "nervous nellie" when in the air. This information is a good learning experience for me.
I was flying from Calcutta to Delhi. It was about 50 minutes into the flight that we turned up and right. The other plane was heading in the opposite direction.
One thing for sure: the number of planes in the skies above India are way up from what they were, even a few years ago. That's what worries me, the hard and soft infrastructure hasn't kept up. The lack of security personel at Calcutta domestic airport is pretty bad. Flight delays are almost guaranteed out of Delhi now it seems.