Then again, what if you offset a mile to the left and the oncoming offsets a mile to his right? You're no better off, are you?
Indeed! That is why I propose we pick a random number between 0.1 and 0.9.
By doing that, we have just reduced the chances of a head on collision by a factor of ten. (On second thoughts make it a number between 0.1 and 1.0. Oh what the heck. Make it 0.5 to 2.0!) WHATEVER!
If we all follow the rules then shouldn't be needed
Yes, but !!!!e happens. Nobody knows what happened over Brazil, but look at the outcome. No doubt the result of multiple factors all lining up in a row. This is just one more factor (no offset) that simply doesn't need to be there. How many sectors were flown around the world between the last five collisions between jet traffic. Millions? Your chances of being involved in a collision are minute in the extreme, but that is no comfort to those people that ended up dead in the Amazon forest this week, or those children that were killed in the TU-154 over Germany in 2002.
I am happy to "fill MY boots", but what about the rest of us. What about when I am paxing on holidays and I'm sitting on the other side of the flightdeck door. I hardly think it would go down well with the captain if I slip him/her a note urging him/her to offset a little bit so that I might enjoy my movie with peace of mind.
It needs to be written into the AIP and become standard procedure so that I don't have to explain myself everytime I go flying and wonder if the guy next to me is feeling uncomfortable because we are not following the letter of the law.
Where is the logic in
not offsetting?