See and avoid 1980
Mil Low Flying in W-Germany 1980 was 90.000 hours (slow and fast movers)
Mil Low Flying was possible on 120 days (WX, holidays).
That gives 750 Mil LL hours/ day.
About 100 military aircraft in LL / hour.
Dispersed over about a 1/4 of the BRD (airspace, ADIZ, WX, Notams)
In an altitude band from 250-1500 feet AGL
Accumulating in good WX areas (where civil traffic was flying as well)
No advisory service, no TCAS, no IFF, limited on board radar, no coordination.
How did we survive?
Today the traffic is about 1/20 of those figures in much more airspace (W+E- Germany), think they would compare to other western nations as well.
Last edited by RetiredF4; 15th Jan 2015 at 09:06.