Originally Posted by radicalrabit
surely a simple solution would have been if both aircraft had turned left even for a few seconds then they would have each headed away from the other? .......... Tell me why they couldnt have done that ?
There has been quite a considerable amount of research done on 3-dimensional collision avoidance algorithms.
Contrary to what you say, it is not simple.
Every collision could be avoided by some simple manoeuvre. The trick is to devise a simple manouvre which will avoid every collision, without introducing more dangers than it solves.
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