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Captured on Camera: Pilot & Photographers' Unexplained Imagines - Christiaan van Heijst | MERGED EP5

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What Tools Do You Have as a Pilot to Determine Potential Threats Outside of Your Visual Range?

Modern airplanes, especially planes like the 737-7-47, we have a TCA system. It's using transponders signals to communicate with other airplanes and every airplane is receiving all the signals from other airplanes around it. This is a really good system, but there's one downside. Some of the lights that I've seen, they were not showing up on TCA, they wereNot showing up on any other system,. probably because it's either not carrying a transponder or it's not even an airplane in the traditional sense.

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