When aircraft are approaching each other head-on, or nearly so, each pilot of each aircraft shall alter course to the right. (f) Overtaking. Each aircraft that is being overtaken has the right-of-way and each pilot of an overtaking aircraft shall alter course to the right to pass well clear.
Answer (1 of 3): If you are VFR, depending on your heading you will, turn on your landing lights and either break right and up or left and down. It's called See and be seen. If you are IFR follow ATC instructions to the letter. Now let me say this, with …
(e) Approaching head-on. When aircraft are approaching each other head-on, or nearly so, each pilot of each aircraft shall alter course to the right. (f) Overtaking. Each aircraft that is being overtaken has the right-of-way and each pilot of an overtaking aircraft shall alter course to the right to pass well clear. (g) Landing.
21. What should you do if you are flying a head-on collision course with another aircraft? If another single-engine aircraft is converging from the right, who has the right-of-way? 22. Except when necessary for takeoffs and landings, what are the minimum safe altitudes when flying over congested and other than congested areas? 23.
Establish best glide airspeed, attempt re-start (carb heat, fuel pump, mixture rich, mags, switch tanks) If no restart - landing area, master switch off, fuel tanks off, open door. List the minimum equipmentand instruments that must be working properly in your aircraft for day VFR flight.
An aircraft in distress has the right-of-way over all other air traffic . (d) Converging. When aircraft of the same category are converging at approximately the same altitude (except head-on, or nearly so), the aircraft to the other's right has the right-of-way .
If the aircraft are of different categories -. (1) A balloon has the right-of-way over any other category of aircraft; (2) A glider has the right-of-way over an airship, powered parachute, weight-shift-control aircraft, airplane, or rotorcraft .
To induce a little stress, I conducted an experiment by asking them, “What would you do?” in case you’re startled by a pop-up, short-range, up-close-and-personal flight path conflict, and had to decide and act quickly to avoid a mid-air collision.
Never intentionally put yourself where you’ll lose sight of the other aircraft, at least before you know your flight paths are deconflicted. Ideally, don’t go where he’ll lose sight of you.
According to Advisory Circular 90-48D, “Pilots’ Role in Collision Avoidance,” the average person takes 12.5 seconds to see an object, recognize it as an aircraft, become aware of a collision course, decide which way to turn, then react, and for the aircraft to respond. Hopefully, you’ll have that much time and distance available before impact.
The following five scenarios are ones we spent time discussing. In each case, where applicable, the GREEN plane has the RoW under 91.113.
Being surprised, shocked, startled, with not a lot of time to evaluate all the options, yet still pick one and execute it, is an extremely unfortunate set of circumstances to find yourself in.