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"Russell Kent" wrote in
: Wow I was there, and saw those cherokee's as well. I swear the left wingtip of the following bird was barely a foot off the ground as he appeared to vear right to avoid the bird in front. I believe they were told to land one short and one long, but obviously the one landing long thought that 100 feet from the numbers was long enough..... I think we'll use this example as reason enough in the future to do the colored dots thing a la Oshkosh. Russell Kent GOOD IDEA me thinks.... Many of the planes that came in final in pairs I thought were too close. Almost none of the ones I observed landing in pairs had the lead plane land after the first taxiway as was specified in the procedures. I saw quite a few that looked to my untrained eye like the following aircraft had to stomp on the brakes to avoid the lead one... I remember thinking, "what if the following plane needed to do a go-around after a touch... how would he make sure and avoid taking a piece of the lead aircraft's tail with him?" Until I saw the cherokee's "dance" I thought perhaps this was my "commmom sense" in conflict with acceptable proceedures, since none of my avaition knowledge is formal (yet to take lesson one... yet...). I suppose that it's really the following crafts job to maintain seperation and either slow, s-turn, or go around if the leading craft is slower than expected, but when the aircraft that was told to land long practically nails the numbers.... that could be a problem. -- ET "A common mistake people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools."---- Douglas Adams |
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