Originally Posted by
OldLurker
Very interesting video. A good sky for photography!
Could someone who knows about intercept procedures answer a couple of questions?
(1) The interceptor arrives beside the target but makes no manoevers to draw attention to himself. It's hard to tell the exact relative position but he seems to stay roughly abeam of the cockpit. Does he expect the target captain to look out sideways while in high-altitude cruise? Or it it left to passengers to tell CC to tell flight crew that there's a fighter alongside?
(2) The interceptor's wingman turns up two minutes later. Is this normal? I thought they normally fly together?
The number two was always there, just out of shot behind the intercepted aircraft. Not much good being side by side if the intercepted aircraft decides to bank into them both.
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