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> There is certainly no 50 miles of mandatory separation between aircraft! Over the open ocean, where the MH370 was, there absolutely is: https://en.wikipedia
by KirillPanov 5y ago
> There is certainly no 50 miles of mandatory separation between aircraft!
Over the open ocean, where the MH370 was, there absolutely is:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation_(aeronautics)#Longitudinal_separation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation_(aeronautics)#Longi...
> The golden rule is the 10-minute rule: no two aircraft following the same
> route must come within 15 minutes flying time of each other. In areas with
> good navaid cover this reduces to 10 minutes
At the MH370's cruising speed of 636mph a 10-minute separation is 106 miles! The Boeing 777's cruising speed is way at the high end for commercial airliners. Regardless anything flying over the open ocean between continents will almost certainly be going at least half that speed.
- denebola 5y agoThat is only if they are at the same altitude. You seem to have missed the first sentance on that link "If any two aircraft are separated by less than the vertical separation minimum, then some form of horizontal separation must exist. "
- carl_dr 5y agoThat might be the golden rule, but it definitely isn't "the rule". If you look on Flightradar24, over the Atlantic for example, you'll see several cases where there are multiple planes well within 15 minutes flying time of each other, on the same track, with separation of 2-3 thousand feet vertically. One example as I write has AA9820 and UA46 following each other at 40,000ft and 37,000ft, at 15nm horizontal separation, and QR740 at 36,000ft about 30nm behind them. When airline traffic is at 100%, you'll routinely see them much closer than that.
- jjk166 5y ago> following the same route There are many routes