Scared of mid-airs

On Thu, 03 Aug 2006 16:37:43 GMT, Jose
wrote:

OK, hold your breath for 37 seconds. It's an incredibly long time.

It's a lot of sky to scan. And if nose to nose, you only have 19 seconds.

Jose

Great, you've got 19 seconds and I've got 19 seconds. Head-on, unless
we are perfectly aligned with miss each other ("Big Sky theory"), but
if either of us see the other, then we do what? Do you know which way
to turn? It IS spelled out in regs. If both of us see each other, we
both do what is required. Still no problem.

Now, you're driving down the Interstate--look at the car in front of
you, watch it pass a marker and count the interval in seconds that you
are maintaining. There's where the danger lies. Back off to 19 seconds
and think how much safer you'll be.

Look out the window. See and avoid. Don't depend upon someone else to
do it for you. There are no guarantees in life. Buy low, sell high.

Ed Rasimus
Fighter Pilot (USAF-Ret)
"When Thunder Rolled"
www.thunderchief.org
www.thundertales.blogspot.com

Great, you've got 19 seconds and I've got 19 seconds. Head-on, unless
we are perfectly aligned with miss each other ("Big Sky theory"), but
if either of us see the other, then we do what?

That's not the point. We have ninteen seconds to notice each other.
For much of that time we each are just a grey dot in a busy grey
landscape, and aren't where the other pilot happened to be looking.

The F16 is also probably in camouflage colors.

Jose
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