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    A traffic alert and collision avoidance system (TCAS), pronounced /ˈtiːkæs/ TEE-kas), also known as an Airborne Collision Avoidance System (ACAS), is an...
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    An airborne collision avoidance system (ACAS, usually pronounced as ay-kas) operates independently of ground-based equipment and air traffic control in...
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    with an airborne collision avoidance system. This set a worldwide precedent for mandatory use of traffic collision avoidance system. As of 2021[update]...
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    A collision avoidance system (CAS), also known as a pre-crash system, forward collision warning system (FCW), or collision mitigation system, is an advanced...
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    and the lack of collision-avoidance systems. Although a rare occurrence in general due to the vastness of open space available, collisions often happen near...
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  • portable collision avoidance system (PCAS) is a proprietary aircraft collision avoidance system similar in function to traffic collision avoidance system (TCAS)...
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  • automatic traffic advisory from their traffic collision avoidance system (TCAS) which was accompanied by an audible announcement in the cockpit, "traffic; traffic...
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  • the lack of traffic collision-avoidance systems. Although a rare occurrence in general due to the vastness of open space available, collisions often happen...
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    regarding the use of the traffic collision avoidance system (TCAS) on board.: 110  On 24 February 2004, Peter Nielsen, the air traffic controller on duty at...
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    closest recorded separation between the two aircraft.: 45  The traffic collision avoidance system (TCAS) did not sound on either aircraft due to the TCAS being...
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    primary method of collision avoidance for water transport.[citation needed] Although technically and operationally distinct, the ADS-B system is analogous...
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    collision avoidance system (TCAS) was not activated, while the NTSB determined that both flight crews acted properly and were placed on a collision course...
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  • In transportation, collision avoidance is the maintenance of systems and practices designed to prevent vehicles (such as aircraft, motor vehicles, ships...
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    (31 mph)), while collision avoidance by steering may be more appropriate at higher vehicle speeds if lanes are clear. Cars with collision avoidance may also be...
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    Fly-by-wire control systems Santa Barbara Airlines Flight 518 South African Airways Flight 228 TERPROM Traffic Collision Avoidance System (TCAS) TWA Flight...
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    detachable auxiliary fuel tank, a traffic collision avoidance system, medical equipment and motorized stretcher system to treat six patients, and additional...
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    studied safety-critical systems such as the Traffic Collision Avoidance System (TCAS) for the avoidance of midair collisions between aircraft and problems...
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    Carrier-sense multiple access with collision avoidance (CSMA/CA) in computer networking, is a link layer multiple access method in which carrier sensing...
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    near-midair collisions in TCAs, the FAA required that all large commercial jets in U.S. airspace be equipped with a traffic collision avoidance system and required...
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    from aviation systems such as the traffic collision avoidance system, it has reduced accidents to one or two per year. Marine GPS systems allow ships to...
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    Safety System (GADSS), which will require new aircraft to be equipped with data broadcast systems that are in constant contact with air traffic controllers...
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    SS Andrea Doria (category Ships sunk in collisions)
    United Kingdom), a paper addressed to the transfer of TCAS (Traffic Collision Avoidance System) aerospace technology to maritime navigation. Due to the luxurious...
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    transponders to assist in identifying them on air traffic control radar. Collision avoidance systems have been developed to use transponder transmissions...
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    instrument (ESI), usage monitoring system (UMS), traffic collision avoidance system (TCAS), terrain awareness and warning system (H-TAWS), and dedicated mission...
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    characteristics. Some modifications include the addition of a traffic collision avoidance system, an Air Traffic Control transponder, camera and senors housed underneath...
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  • notable systems, which employ voice warnings, and which are found in most commercial and military aircraft: TCAS (traffic collision avoidance system) and...
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    amateur packet radio, flown on Space Shuttle mission STS-72. Traffic collision avoidance system (TCAS) Ian Wade, ed. (August 29, 2000). "APRS Protocol Reference"...
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  • aircraft Resolution Advisory, an aircraft instruction from a Traffic Collision Avoidance System R a {\displaystyle R_{a}} or Ra, a popular parameter of roughness...
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    was on approach to Westchester County Airport (HPN). The traffic collision avoidance system (TCAS) sounded on the Fokker 100, leading to some discussion...
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  • Spacecraft collision avoidance is the implementation and study of processes minimizing the chance of orbiting spacecraft inadvertently colliding with...
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