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Old 4th Aug 2005, 16:38
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Don't forget the time lag between the moment that the radar return is made to its display on the radar console. With modern radar data processing systems this can be significant. I believe it can be up to 15 seconds meaning that the aircraft have travelled quite a distance. Radar is an historic picture not an actual one. ACAS is much much faster than this.

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