Originally Posted by
Maggie Island
Worth noting that the required wake separation for a lighty less than 7000kg MTOW with an A380 ahead is 8nm (well... in Aus airspace anyway).
That would be an exciting encounter in a Tomahawk. Hard to see where you'd get that close to an A380 - arriving 380s are generally around 8,000 feet or more over Lilydale and the step starts at 5,000 so you'd also have at least 3,000 feet of vertical separation.
Still reckon it would feel like a cork in a washing machine.