Originally Posted by
BOAC
Well, I'd vote for 'automatic' offsets - the 737 has a 'default' 0.1NM right offset available at all times with a couple of button presses. I cannot see how that could adversly affect any traffic anywhere, as it is only 600ft, but it is enough.
The problem is, piombo, these aircraft WERE in 'radar coverage' and would almost certainly have missed each other with a 0.1R.
But this is not an air traffic regulation. Offsets can be inserted at any time right or left in any FMC, but if you are talking of default offset, the one always present. what if your GPS or FMC or IRS or INS have an error of 0.1 to the other side? It seems to me that there is always a small error present in all of these modern navigation systems and that is why there are no "precision approaches" based on airborne navigation sys. And this apply to the one just bellow your post.
