On Mar 5, 1:47*am, -b- wrote:
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-b- writes:

No time is spent teaching pilots "clever ways to estimate distances"
as this would be inconsistent with safety.

How else do they determine distances?

By instruments. That's what they're there for.
But this is news to many non-pilots, who in the face of all evidence fail
to comprehend simple realities.



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Well, not quite. "Extend your downwind a mile" is obeyed sans
instruments, ditto how far from the runway you fly your downind, or
when center announces traffic in visual conditions. In all cases we
poor two slobs who are farther away than the MX imposted 100 feet
somehow manage to muddle thru. He is confusing 3D stationary observer
perceptions with the real world we operate in. Ocular depth preception
that depends on the distance between our ours is one kind. The other
kind depends on what's between our ears, and among other things it's
sometimes called situational awareness. That is very much 3D, by the
way.