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Judgment & ambiguity · Decisions under uncertainty

You're an air traffic controller and two aircraft are converging with a projected loss of separation that the conflict-alert tools flag, but the readouts are borderline and one aircraft's Mode C altitude is behaving erratically. Do you issue an avoidance instruction now on ambiguous data, and how do you decide?

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When separation is the question and time is short, I act on the conservative interpretation and verify after — I don't wait for the data to become clean, because clean data may arrive too late.

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