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I don't know much about aviation, but 1000ft seems kinda close to pass another aircraft. How normal is that distance?
by nsgoetz 10y ago
I don't know much about aviation, but 1000ft seems kinda close to pass another aircraft. How normal is that distance?
- ddinh 10y agoIt's fairly standard practice, as long as the aircraft involved are certified for it and flying on autopilot. Given that the planes involved were flying at FL350-60, they probably were (altitudes above a certain threshold - FL290 in the US) are restricted to aircraft operating under rules allowing 1000ft vertical separation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reduced_vertical_separation_minima https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reduced_vertical_separation_mi...
- goodcanadian 10y agoBy law, 5 (nautical) miles horizontal separation or 1000 feet vertical separation is required. When aircraft were smaller, that was probably more than sufficient. The A380 is another beast entirely, though.
- alkonaut 10y agoThe question is then - are there any systems that can ensure that two airraft aren't passing eachother at just 1000 feet if one of them is a behemoth? Will the corridors magically widen when an A380 enters it? Will nearby aircraft be warned when crossing right under an A380 that they are basically on a collision course, while had it been a small aircraft it wouldn't be a problem?
- LoSboccacc 10y agoI never understood why corridors at opposing directions aren't by default offseted both in altitude and lateral separation - there have been quite many collision already because navigation aid reduced the positional error within a corridor to few meters