Know what Thought did?
Roger Roger.
yep it was a near miss that nearly didnt happen.
The experience of the guy going over casting a bloody great shadow over my plane as this fracking great yellow and blue turbine with a four bladed prop wooshed over the top of me and briefly and blocked out the sun was an experience indeed.
A bit like a bloody great B double on the HUME going by when you are towing a caravan...
My DOC Medico Aviation type gave me a lesson in primeaval peripheral vision yesterday in explaining why my cave man instincts saved me.
He said peripheral at best is 20% and only sees motion and colour.
Had I not seen motion it would have been coming right down my left wing and not moving so I would not have seen it and it would have taken me out.
Doc said because you saw it it was BIG and your brain registered the movement and maybe the colour, and you turned your head and looked for the threat.
As to whether anything I did saved me he said probably not, if I had time to eyeball the plane and descend and waggle my wings we had safe clearance.
Which is obvious isnt it..