Airprox?
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Airprox?
We have recently returned from Cyprus, and, as usual, I spent much of the time during the flight looking out of the window. (Safer when someone else is driving!) About 90 minutes out of PAF, I was surprised to see opposite direction traffic, within 100' of our level, FL360, less than a mile to the right. There was no noticable change of our heading, so I assume both captains were aware of each other. Is this normal?
Ringway, this type of post comes up now and again. Let me assure you that the seperation you perceived you saw and the actual seperation will have been entirely different. The minimum required vertical seperation of 1000feet doesn't actually look like much when two large airliners cross each other close by, so it can "look" alarmingly close to the untrained eye.
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Thanks for your comments. I accept that the untrained eye might well mis-judge things, but I've been flying out of MAN as a PPL for the last 10 years, so I hope that my estimations weren't so far out!
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Originally Posted by Ringway Flyer
Thanks for your comments. I accept that the untrained eye might well mis-judge things, but I've been flying out of MAN as a PPL for the last 10 years, so I hope that my estimations weren't so far out!
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Jon, the term has been around since I started in the "business" in the mid-60's, and it would certainly be a "picky" pax who would object!The term also describes me these days!!
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