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No Idea Either
TCAS is pretty close and visually I think I can tell what’s about 3 miles and what’s 5 after thirty years. And quite routinely I’m about 1000’ when a ‘TO’ clearance is issued to someone on the ground. But in any case, I think there is room for improvement everywhere. I watched a company aircraft piss around when told ‘line up be ready immediately’ and cause a go round a few years ago. A controller will only be burnt that way once………..
if anything we might tell you the traffic is closer than it is to get you (not you personally) to hurry up. There is such a large variation of how quickly or not different airlines (even individual pilots) line up and get going. We have to work with the lowest common denominator.