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Yeah, probably. The use case is keeping the plane stable in a big empty space. I don't think civilian air planes have any collision avoidance radar, because as
by SiempreViernes 6y ago
Yeah, probably. The use case is keeping the plane stable in a big empty space.
I don't think civilian air planes have any collision avoidance radar, because as late as 2006 we get mid air collisions like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gol_Transportes_A%C3%A9reos_Flight_1907 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gol_Transportes_A%C3%A9reos_Fl...
- netsharc 6y agoThe planes don't use radar but rely on transponder data and have TCAS (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_collision_avoidance_system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_collision_avoidance_sy...) that would coordinate with each other, and yell at one plane's pilot to go up and the other's to go down. In that accident the smaller plane had its transponder switched off. A passenger on the smaller plane (which had zero casualties) wrote about it from his point of view: https://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/03/business/03road.html https://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/03/business/03road.html
- rsynnott 6y agoSome Airbus planes have them, but I think it’s an optional extra.
- mark-r 6y agoI once saw a near miss of 2 civilian planes. One was taking off from an airport next to Lake Superior, and the other was a float plane taking off from the adjacent bay. I only noticed because I heard the engines rev up as they took evasive maneuvers.