Don't bet your life on it...
The closest I came to a midair was in a class delta under a controllers (un)watchful eye. If you read the accident reports a surprisingly high percentage of midairs occur in class delta airspace (you would think its zero). And if you read the regs (here in the US anyways) controllers provide sequencing to runways not seperation services. Have a midair in a class delta and the accident report will most likely read the cause as the "pilots failure to see and avoid". Keep your eyes open and try to have a visualization where that plane should be. If you can't see it, ask the controller. That very likely saved my life as the plane that should have been lined up on the parallel runway was lined up for mine and literally just below me.
You should have heard the controllers voice as it raised a couple of notches...
The closest I came to a midair was in a class delta under a controllers (un)watchful eye. If you read the accident reports a surprisingly high percentage of midairs occur in class delta airspace (you would think its zero). And if you read the regs (here in the US anyways) controllers provide sequencing to runways not seperation services. Have a midair in a class delta and the accident report will most likely read the cause as the "pilots failure to see and avoid". Keep your eyes open and try to have a visualization where that plane should be. If you can't see it, ask the controller. That very likely saved my life as the plane that should have been lined up on the parallel runway was lined up for mine and literally just below me.
You should have heard the controllers voice as it raised a couple of notches...
The controllers will keep me safe, right?